FROM BULL RUN TO APPOMATTOX: A BOYS VIEW (6th Virginia Cavalry CSA Regimental History) (Inscribed by Author)

Hopkins, Luther W.

Published by Press of Fleet-McGinley Co., Baltimore, 1908

About this Item

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, Expanded Second Edition, 219 pgs, frontis, portrait plates, 3 folding maps (all plates / maps complete as issued). Decorative red cloth with gilt design and title on cover and with gilt titled spine. With full-page written inscription from author to Dr. James K. Homer, Union veteran and noted author; bookplate of former owner on front endpaper. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Covers are clean and bright; spine dulled. Interior lacks front free endpaper, front hinge repaired; otherwise clean and solid. Folding maps are complete and in near fine condition. With clear, mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The author was a member of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War and wrote this book in response to his son's begging to know everything that his father had done in the war. It is thus a personal account of what it was really like to be a fighter in that war. Written for the younger reader, but still entertaining. The 6th Cavalry Regiment organized in November 1861, at Manassas, Virginia. Men of this unit were raised in Loudoun, Rappahannock, Clarke, Rockingham, Pittsylvania, Fairfax, Halifax, Fauquier, and Orange counties. The unit served in Robertson's, W.E. Jones', Lomax's, and Payne's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. It fought in Jackson's Valley Campaign and in the conflicts at Second Manassas, Brandy Station, Upperville, Fairfield, Bristoe, Mine Run, The Wilderness, Todd's Tavern, Spotsylvania, Haw's Shop, and Cold Harbor. The regiment went on to take part in Early's Shenandoah Valley operations and the Appomattox Campaign. Only 3 men surrendered on April 9, 1865, as most of the cavalry cut through the Federal lines and later disbanded. This copy inscribed from author to Dr. Hosmer, author of The Color Guard, a reminiscence of service with the 54th Mass Inf., as well as his highly regarded 2-vol history of the American Civil War, in which Hopkins here references. A great association copy of a scarce Confederate narrative. REFERENCES: DORN II #1221; NEVINS I pg. 106: "A member of the 6th Virginia Cavalry, Hopkins composed this overly dramatic memoir late in life and primarily for young readers.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: FROM BULL RUN TO APPOMATTOX: A BOYS VIEW (6th Virginia Cavalry CSA Regimental History) (Inscribed by Author)
• Publisher: Press of Fleet-McGinley Co., Baltimore
• Publication Date: 1908
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)