The Second Year of the War; Southern History of the War
New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1863. Early printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 6-386 pp. Green cloth with a gilt decoration on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, four plates, and a folding plan of the Battle of Vicksburg. Dornbusch III, 241. Howes P460. National Park Service, "Edward Alfred Pollard". Nevins II, 175. Sabin 63860. First published in Richmond, this is the revised New York imprint done in the same year. The book's author is credited with coining the phrase "Lost Cause", an expression which spurred resentment against federal reconstruction after the U.S. Civil War. Pollard felt that the Confederacy had been wronged and that it was justified in its secession and attempt to maintain American slavery. The author was an outspoken critic of Jefferson Davis during his term as President of the Confederacy, and felt that Davis mismanaged the conflict. Pollard would later be taken as a prisoner by the North after he attempted to sail to England to seek support for the Confederacy. Good. Item #000014871
Soiling to the cloth, lacks the free front endpaper, scattered dampspots and foxing to the textblock.
Price: $250.00