1 of 200 Best Confederate Books - Fiighting for the Confederacy

Description: Fighting for the Confederacy The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander By Edward Porter Alexander, edited by Gary W. Gallagher; 1989, 1st edition; published University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC.; 664pp. in good condition (This particular volume has a slight crease at the top left corner of the pagination, that came from the publisher this way. Best seen on photos 7 &8) with a verygood dust-jacket. Inscription from the editor (Gary Gallagher) on the half title page. “Porter Alexander reaches across the years to modern readers and makes them his friends and admirers by means of his evocative narrative voice. Clever words, vivid descriptions, witty episodes and opinions, close familiarity with fascinating people and dramatic events—all of those things make this a classic of the very first order. Origins in a contemporary journal reinforce the pedigree of a spectacular book. Fighting for the Confederacy inarguably is one of the two or three best memoirs by a Confederate who fought in the war's Virginia theater, and one of the half-dozen best Confederate books of any genre. Pressed to choose The Very Best, I probably would opt for Porter Alexander's dazzling memoir. Alexander's mis-named Military Memoirs of a Confederate (first published in 1907) is a splendid book in many ways, but it is not in fact a memoir at all; this unexcelled book fills that role.” #2 (R.K.K.) In Taller Cotton 200 More Important Confederate Books For the Reader, Researcher, and Collector by Gary W. Gallagher: Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr; and Robert K. Krick On a personal level, I have been a Civil War book-dealer for over thirty years and I consider this to be the best memoir to come out of the War Between the States! This volume can be readily found on the market, but first editions of this book are becoming quite scarce!

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Location: Columbia, South Carolina

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