A Confederate Surgeon's Letters to His Wife Signed by the author

Welch, Spencer Glasgow (Surgeon Thirteenth South Carolina Volunteers McGowans Brigade)

Published by Neale Publishing Company, New York, 1911

About this Item

12mo. [1], 121 pages, [1]. Green cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover and faded title on the spine. Ex-library copy with removed label from the spine, new white end sheets front and back (original half title page present), numbers written and stamped on the introduction page; small white narrow strip covering a marking page 13; and pages 17 and 18 have old tape repairs in the gutter. Several pages have light corner creases, closed tears, and some taped tears on the edges. Author signed this copy on the front blank end paper. The author served in the campaigns in the east including Manassas, Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness Campaign. A fair copy. Nevins I page 175 - "Extremely revealing letters of army health and field medicine on the Southern side."; Krick 538; Dornbusch II, 928.

Seller Inventory # 35696

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Confederate Surgeon's Letters to His Wife Signed by the author
• Publisher: Neale Publishing Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1911
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fair
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science & Medicine
  • Civil War