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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 577

Texas History and Civil War. Johnston, William Preston: The Life of General Albert Sidney. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1878. Large Octavo, three-quarter publisher's dark brown morocco, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, laid-in signature of "Col. Wm. P. Johnston", illustrated, 755pp. Colonel and aide-de-camp to Jefferson Davis, W.P. Johnston was Davis' most trusted staff officer. His biography of his father offers the reader an intimate portrayal of A.S. Johnston's impact on Texas (he was Secretary of War under Mirabeau B. Lamar and led the first Texas Regiment in the Mexican War) and the Civil War (he was killed early on, at Shiloh 1862). Gen. Joseph Hooker called this work "the best book, by all odds, published by either side." While Douglas Southall Freeman said of it, "Better perhaps than any Confederate biography of so early a date." Pencilled owner signature, some foxing to frontispiece and title page, Very Good.

Estimate
$200 to $250