John William Forest Author (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 1946. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping to head and tail; light soiling to boards. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($3.00); closed tears; chipping to DJ edges; missing small pieces to spine. Gray cloth boards and spine with bright green lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 237 pp 8vo. John William De Forest (1826-1906), a native of Connecticut, enjoyed a long career as a prolific writer, mainly of fiction. During the Civil War he was a captain in the 12th Connecticut Volunteers, taking part in the capture of New Orleans, the Port Hudson campaign, and the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia. After the war, he served as a sub-assistant district commissioner for the Freedmen's Bureau in Greenville, South Carolina. This book, published in 1946, is De Forest's vivid description of his experiences at war. It consists of letters to his wife during his service, supplemented by six articles published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine and Galaxy between 1864 and 1868. De Forest intended to compile these pieces into a book but never did. James H. Croushore finally accomplished the task, adding chapter divisions with introductory notes to give form and continuity to the whole. The result is a first-rate personal war narrative - recently named one of the one hundred finest Civil War books by Civil War magazine - more than half of which deals with Louisiana from De Forest's Yankee perspective. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 376 pages. 6.00x0.84x9.00 inches. In Stock.