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Category - Collectibles - Civil War - Books and Magazines

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Collectibles - Civil War
Books and Magazines

Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1st Edition, 1882

Description:
Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, by Carlton McCarthy, with illustrations, limited First Edition Hardcover, Richmond, 1882, Riverside Press/ Houghton Press, 224 pages.

The author was an infantry private in the ANV, as was his brother who fell at Cold Harbor to whom the book is dedicated. The illustrations were drawn by William Sheppard, an artillery lieutenant with the ANV during the war. The book describes the realities of irregular rations, improvisations in clothing and weaponry, campfire entertainments, boredom, diversions and endless marching, along with battles and skirmishes.  This Civil War classic of soldiering in the ranks debunks all the romantic notions of war. Like his Northern counterpart, the Confederate soldier fought against bullets, starvation, miserable weather, disease, and mental strain. But the experience was perhaps even worse for Johnny Reb. Never as well equipped and provisioned as the Yankee, he nevertheless performed heroically. This book does for the Confederate soldier what John Billings’ Hardtack and Coffee does for the Northern soldier.
This hard to find limited first edition is in remarkably good condition for its age. There is no foxing, fading or tearing of internal pages. The illustrations are crisp. And the cloth hardcover with title and decorated illustration on the front cover and heel are intact with only slight wear at the edges.

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