RARE 1863 Richmond 1st ed Life of Stonewall Jackson Confederate CSA Military VMI


RARE 1863 Richmond 1st ed Life of Stonewall Jackson Confederate CSA Military VMI

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RARE 1863 Richmond 1st ed Life of Stonewall Jackson Confederate CSA Military VMI:
$2000.00


The Life of Stonewall Jackson. From official papers, contemporary narratives, and personal acquaintance.

By A Virginian (John Esten Cooke)

Published:Richmond: Ayres & Wade, Illustrated News StreamPresses, 1863. TRUE FIRST EDITION.

305 pp. w/ frontis. Original softcover wraps. Some chipping to the front cover, with some minor loss. A remarkable find of an important Confederate imprint!

First edition, the scarce and important Richmond wartime printing of Cooke’s biography of General Stonewall Jackson—”the most famous nickname in the Civil War”—with pictorial front wrapper.

This wartime biography of Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson was published in Richmond within months of his death in 1863. “The most famous nickname in the Civil War came to the general… in the first major battle of the war (First Manassas).” There General Barnard Bee sought to rally his troops by “pointing to the top of a hill that was the key to the battlefield. Bee shouted something to the effect of: ‘Look, men! There stands Jackson like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians!’ Jackson’s subsequent attack helped turn the tide and bring victory to the Confederates as well as fame and the sobriquet of ‘Stonewall’ to himself.” But in 1863 after leading his army in “a devastating flank attack” on the Federals, Jackson died on May 10 from complications caused by amputation of his wounded left arm (ANB). John Cooke, who “as an officer on General Jeb Stuart’s staff… saw the war from a special vantage point,” authored this important early biography (In Tall Cotton 27). Cooke notes within that on learning of Jackson’s death, “General Lee, who knew his incomparable value more than all other men, exclaimed with tears in his eye, ‘He is better off than I am. He lost his left arm, but I have lost my right!” (271). With pictorial front wrapper with woodcut portrait of Jackson by Hurdle; lithographic frontispiece portrait after a photograph by D.T. Cowell. Single rear advertisement leaf. BAL 3718. Dornbusch II:2820. Howes C734. Parish & Willingham 4779. Wright J51. See Sabin 100578.

Light scattered foxing and occasional dampstaining, slight edge-wear with front joint separating but still strong,An extremely good copy of this major Civil War biography.Not Ex-Lib.

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RARE 1863 Richmond 1st ed Life of Stonewall Jackson Confederate CSA Military VMI:
$2000.00

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