THE VOLUNTEER SOLDIER OF AMERICA

With Memoir of the Author and Military Reminiscences from General Logan’s Private Journal

1887

First American Edition

By: John A. Logan, Maj. Gen.

R.S. Peale & Company, Publishers [Chicago]

8vo

Hardcover [Green gilt picture cloth]

Item Number: 4755

$75.00

Description

The XV Corps Commanding General in the Atlanta Campaign extols the virtues of the volunteer regiments while criticizing the regular army, written at a time when the former was starting to give way to the latter. A very good copy, corners and spine head & tail worn and a bit frayed, rear cover soiled, front cover a bit rubbed, front hinge split, issued without dust jacket (706 pages, color frontispiece, 25 illustrations, appendix, index).