Folsom, William R. Vermonters in Battle and other papers. Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont Historical Society, 1953. First Edition. [8910]
Teal cloth with gilt titles, vignette of a Revolutionary War soldier on the front cover, very light scuffing to binding, 9 x 6 1/4 inches. xvi., 236 pp., 2 maps, 1 illustration, clean, tight. Very good. Hardcover.
Eight chapters: Vermont at Bull Run, at Gettysburg, the Battle of Valcour Island, the Battle of Hubbardton, the Battle of Plattsburg, Robert E. Lee - An Appreciation, Father Marquette and The Mississippi River, and Benedict Arnold.
"It is obviously written by a man who knows at first hand the literature, who indeed knows at first hand the terrain he writes about. Except in a few passages where he lets go a 'must have'...Mr. Folsom comes nowhere near writing purely romantic history. Be does eschew entirely any of the apparatus of scholarly history - footnotes, bibliographies, sources...there is surely a place for these interesting and deeply felt historical essays....This is not the dry, matter-of-fact, precise writing of the academic historian. It is good emotional writing. The essential is not to go to Mr. Folsom for what isn't there." - review by Crane Brinton, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1 (March 1956).