The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth, gilt spine. xxv, 368pp. 23 maps (some partly colored). Top edge gilt. Very good. Mildest bit of edgewear, mainly at head of spine. Item #33965
Tight and attractive first edition of what William E. Parrish (in Nevins' Civil War bibliography) attacks as an "overrated, outdated study that concentrates on the major military campaigns from Belmont to Nashville," but which others find readable and useful. NEVINS II, 149. DORNBUSCH III, 2540.
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