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1899 · WRCAM53564 — Little Rock 1899. 488pp. plus portrait. Contemporary grey cloth spine gilt. Some soiling to spine spine ends worn corners bumped. Contemporary presentation inscription on front pastedown manuscript compliments card laid in. Some light tanning and minor scattered foxing. About very good. Rare southern Civil War narrative which follows Lee's Sharpshooters from the beginning of the campaign in Spotsylvania May 4 1864 to Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9 1865. The appendix includes a history of the Mississippi sharpshooters by their commander combined with descriptions of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House battles by the correspondent for the London Morning Herald. HOWES D573. DORNBUSCH III:1222. hardcover books