Item #153669 The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend). J. G. Barnard.
The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)
The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)
The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)
The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)
The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)
The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)
The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)
The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)
The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)
The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)
The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)
The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)
The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)

The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run (A Letter to an English Friend)

New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1862. Original. Hardcover. Red cloth/boards. Gilt titling on front cover, with ornate CSA printing. Dark brown end papers. 136 pp. with 5 original maps (one with some hand coloring) and 8 pp. of the publisher's title listings. Errata sheet is bound in. VG+ contents with clean pages, a tight binding, and five maps, as published (four in pristine condition). The actual first map has age toning and chipping to the very outer 3/8 of the right edge. Could be trimmed. Back cover and lower half of front cover Good+ with no wear to gilt. Spine and top half of front cover age-toned and soiled. Light foxing on reverse of both free end papers. Hand-written name, in fountain pen, on reverse of ffep (Mary Binney Evans, 1975). Evans was the wife of Rowland Evans, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, descended from a family who arrived in America in 1698. Rowland and Mary married in 1878, and the "Evans" obviously (from the writing) was added to the signature at that time. Item #153669

The book is listed in varying places as having 136 pp., but the copy in the NY Public Library is listed as having 174 pp. Both were published in the same year. Our volume appears to be complete (and "The End" is at the bottom of page 136, which might be a good clue). John Gross Barnard was Major of Engineers, U.S.A., Bridgadier-General and Chief Engineer, Army of the Potomac. The New York Times review of 1862 reads, "The reputation alone of Maj. Barnard as an officer of the highest ability in his arm of the military profession, identified with so many of the finest engineering achievements, of the country, would secure to him a large, audience for any utterance he might wish to give in that direction. What he has to say on a topic of such universal interest as the repulse of the National forces in front of the rebel works at Manassas, will be listened to with the utmost attention. What Maj. Barnard here presents was, he tells us in his preface, commenced in February in a letter to a friend in England, through whom alone he expected it to reach publicity. That style of composition he found it impossible to maintain as he proceeded with the task, and hence he varies it, retaining the epistolary form, however, to the end. Maj. Barnard appends to his letter copies of the plans of the field which accompanied Gen. McDowell's official report; a very accurate plan recently made under his own directions by Lieut. H.L. Abbott, of the Topographical Engineers, who served with Gen. Tyler in the battle; a third plan prepared by Gen. W.F. Barry, Chief of Artillery in the Potomac army, and still another very curious one published in Richmond soon after the action. The volume is a most valuable memento of a memorable event in our history, and has been very handsomely presented by the publisher." Barnard's writings are known mainly for their military and scientific reports as well as memoir material.

Price: $400.00

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