Description: First Edition with two tissue-guarded portraits and four battle maps, one of which is a fold-out.Near perfect condition. John Bell Hood’s Advance and Retreat is a compilation of Hood’s writings assembled by G. T. Beauregard after the author’s death from yellow fever. Hood refights the Civil War with particular focus on his conflicts with General Joseph E. Johnston and General William T. Sherman. A crucial source for understanding Gettysburg, the Atlanta Campaign and many other battles.Robert Johannsen describes Hood’s writing as “controversial, sometimes bitter.”Douglas Southall Freeman wrote “This is a genuinely tragic book, brave and bitter, wistful and manly, touched with humor in the early chapters, grim in its recount of the circumstances which defeated his final plan of operations.”
Price: 475 USD
Location: Fernandina Beach, Florida
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New Orleans LA
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Signed: Yes
Author: John Bell Hood
Publisher: Hood Orphan Memorial Fund / G. T. Beauregard, New Orleans
Topic: Civil War (1861-65)
Subject: Military & War
Year Printed: 1880
