Northrop, Henry Davenport. Life and Deeds of General Sherman Including the Story of His Great March to the Sea. Philadelphia: National Publishing Co, ca. 1891. [12063]
Brown cloth decorated in bright gilt and black, binding is clean and near-fine with just a slight dullness to the gilt on the spine, tight, 8 x 5 1/2 inches. Marbled page edges, end papers with ivy design, former owner's signature on front end paper, one on the rear his partly scuffed away. Striking wood-engraved portrait of Sherman in uniform as frontispiece, with tissue guard. 568 clean pp. with many plates and text-illustrations. A very good copy indeed. Very good. Hardcover.
Title continues: Being a Graphic Narrative of His Boyhood and Early Life; Education at West Point; Career in Florida, California and Louisiana; Daring Deeds at Shiloh, Corinth and Vicksburg; Sublime Achievements in the Georgia and Tennessee Campaigns, and Closing Scenes of the Great Struggle, etc, etc., comprising Thrilling Descriptions of Battles, Marches, and Victories; Personal Anecdotes; Life as a Citizen; Last Sickness and Death; the Nation's Sorrow, and Magnificent Tributes to the Great Commander, Hero, and Patriot. Superbly Embellished with Striking Illustrations.
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), b. Lancaster, Ohio; d. New York City. The unrelenting and sometimes ruthless Union Civil War general who worked closely with Grant to defeat the Southern Confederacy.
