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MATHES, J[ames] Harvey. The Old Guard in Gray: Researches in the Annals of the Confederate Historical Association. Sketches of Memphis Veterans Who Upheld Her Standard in the War, and of Other Confederate Worthies. [Memphis: Press of S.C. Toof & Co., 1897]. Portrait frontis., illus. Orig. cloth. Cloth slightly worn, spine lettering rubbed, front free endpaper chipped, else a very good copy. "Biographical sketches of 458 Confederate veterans; these provide an interesting key to postwar occupations of a samle group." Nevins II, p. 230.
MATHES, J[ames] Harvey. The Old Guard in Gray: Researches in the Annals of the Confederate Historical Association. Sketches of Memphis Veterans Who Upheld Her Standard in the War and of Other Confederate Worthies. [Memphis: Press of S.C. Toof & Co., 1897]. 1st ed. 292pp. Portrait frontis., portraits. Orig. cloth. Cloth rubbed, some shelfwear, front inner hinge just starting, else very good. Inscription of front endpaper, "Feb. 1897. Purchased from Author, J.H. Mathes. Presented to Mrs. President Wm. McKinley, Washington City. D.C., Mar. 5th 1897 by James Arlington Loudon (of Memphis, Ten.)." This was the day after McKinley's inauguration. "Biographical sketches of 458 Confederate veterans; these provide an interesting key to postwar occupations of a sample group" Nevins II, p.230.
MATHES, J[ames] Harvey. The Old Guard in Gray: Researches in the Annals of the Confederate Historical Association. Sketches of Memphis Veterans Who Upheld Her Standard in the War and of Other Confederate Worthies. [Memphis: Press of S.C. Toof & Co., 1897]. Enlarged ed. 292,[1]pp. Portrait frontis., portraits. [with] MATHES, J. Harvey. The Old Guard in Gray. Part II, 1869-1899: Annals of the Confederate Historical Association of Memphis. Sketches of Members and Others Who Followed the Stars and Bars. [Memphis: 1899]. 148pp. Portrait frontis., portraits. 2 Vols in one. Orig. cloth. Cloth rubbed, some shelfwear, front inner hinge starting, lower corner of p. 173/4 lacking, else very good. This Enlarged Edition is rare and not mentioned in any of the standard bibliographies. This volume consists of the same sheets of the first edition published in 1897 together with an additional 148 pages containing 107 more Confederate veterans printed in 1899. "Biographical sketches of 458 Confederate veterans; these provide an interesting key to postwar occupations of a sample group" Nevins II, p.230 (first edition).