Reminiscences of the Civil War by a Confederate General.
New York: Charles Scribner, 1904. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy in green cloth hardcover binding with bright gilt stamping to the front cover and spine. General Gordon's career was perhaps as brilliant as that of any officer in the Confederate army. In rapid succession he filled every grade--that of Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier-General, Major-General, and, near the end, was assigned to duty as Lieutenant-General and commanded, at the surrender at Appomattox, one half of the Army of Northern Virginia, under Robert E. Lee. He distinguished himself on many bloody fields, most prominent, the battles of Seven Pines, Sharpsburg or Antietam, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Cedar Creek, Petersburg, and Appomattox. At Sharpsburg he was wounded five times, but would not leave his troops till the last shot laid him helpless and insensible on the field. One scholar of the war stated that in his study of the great war on both sides he had found but one prominent general who, when he was in command, or when he led a charge, had never been defeated or repulsed, and that general was John B. Gordon. Item #29020
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