FOUR YEARS UNDER MARSE ROBERT. (Richmond Howitzers, CSA Unit History)

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 368 pgs, frontis. Original tan cloth with tipped on illustration, gilt titled cover and spine. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Covers are a bit soiled with minor spotting, spine lightly faded. Interior is clean and tight with pencilled former owner's name on endpaper. Stated Second Edition. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The author was a major of Confederate artillery, Army of Northern Virginia. REFERENCES: KRICK 483: "Stiles graduated from Yale in 1859 and joined the famed Richmond Howitzers in 1861. His perspicacious account of his war experience is a classic Confederate book. Stiles saw most of the battles of the Army of Northern Virginia throughout the war, and was able to provide perceptive remarks on most of its prominent officers based on first hand experience.Stiles' book may have been the best seller ever published by Walter Neale. He was able to state in 1909 that it was still selling at a rate of more than 1100 copies a year." NEVINS I pg 164: "An informative and entertaining memoir by a very intelligent member of Lee's Army; particularly good for the 1864-1865 campaign." DORN II 1125.…