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44 cm, 582, illus., front flyleaf creased, some foxing, boards soiled and worn at edges, boards weak, oversized volume. Complete title: Battles and Commanders of the Civil War: A Graphic and Pictorial History Prepared Directly from the Government Records in the Departments of War and Statistics. Story, complete and official, of all the political issues, campaigns, engagements, and heroic episodes of the titanic and dreadful conflict between the states on land and sea. Leaders of the North and South, fraternizing under the symbol of indestructible union, submit this work as their impartial report of the war, its conception, prosecution, and results. Accompanied by the complete, superb collection of the famous war pictures, drawn upon the spot by the Government's great artists of that time: Baker, Crane, Beard, Schell, Lumberg, Forbes, Wevill, Sunoris, Osborn, Wilcox, Weaver, Bosse, Newton, Rawson, Russell, Sartons, Chamberlain, Taylor, Wand, Heillen, Becker, Lovie, Davis. Narrative and descriptive by John Clark Ridpath, Rossiter Johnson, General Fitzhugh Lee, General John T. Morgan, George L. Kilmer and General Joseph B. Carr. Carefully edited by General Marcus J. Wright of the War Department, Washington, D.C. Seller Inventory # 23857
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