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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 550

Civil War. Pair of books -- Jones, J. William: The Davis Memorial Volume or Our Dead President, Jefferson Davis. Richmond, VA; B.F. Johnson & Co., 1890. 8vo, red cloth boards, floral endpapers, 56 illustrations, 672pp. An extensive memorial to Davis written by an ex-Confederate chaplain, who contemporary historian Charles Reagan Wilson called "the Evangelist of the Lost Cause". Ex-Libris W.M. Longenberger. Small top nick adjacent blank page before title, otherwise Fine; and Pickett, Lasalle Corbell: Pickett and His Men. Atlanta; The Foote and Davies Co., 1899. 8vo, Confederate gray hard covers, 439pp. A rather idealized, war-era depiction of General George E. Pickett by his third wife. Some soiling front endpapers, very minor spine scuffs, otherwise About Fine. [2]

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