Civil War History Books One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry (Collectors Library of the Civil War) by John H. Worsham History Lovers Gift Books

This is a near fine (almost like new) leather-bound hardcover. This is one of the 1982 Time Life Collectors Library of the Civil War series. This edition has been reproduced photographically from the 1912 First Edition, thus preserving the authenticity, including typographical errors. Inside pages are still crisp and clean with no markings seen. Black leather bound with gold lettering, embossed frontispiece, and gold tipped page edges. Attached red ribbon bookmark. Marbled endpapers front and back. Binding tight and straight. Standard octavo book size or 6" x 9" with 353 pages including index.

Most troops in the American Civil War came from civilian life. Most Johnny Rebs and Billy Yanks were simple farmers, tradesmen, and students with one thing in common; they found military life unforgettable. The author, John Henry Worsham, was such a citizen soldier. Two weeks before the firing on at Fort Sumter, he joined a Richmond militia unit which became part of the 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment under Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, later known as Stonewall Jackson. From then on, Worsham saw almost uninterrupted combat. From the Seven Days Campaign to Manassas, Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, he even escaped injury at the bitter fighting of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania. It took him 20 yrs after the war to write this book, but he produced one of the most sought after memoirs of Confederate Army life. The book is full ofd descriptions of battle and daily life, anecdotes and humor, all coming from a disarmingly honest man.

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