Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army, being a narrative of personal adventures in the infantry, ordnance, cavalry, courier, and hospital services, with an exhibition of the power, purposes, earnestness, military despotism, and demoralization of the South, by

Title: Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army, being a narrative of personal adventures in the infantry, ordnance, cavalry, courier, and hospital services, with an exhibition of the power, purposes, earnestness, military despotism, and demoralization of the South, by
Author: William G. Stevenson
Publisher: A. S. Barnes & Burr, New York
Published: 1862
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 232
Catalogs: American Civil War, Military History, Abolition
Description: Woodcut frontispiece depicting the Council of War before the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing, featuring Bragg, Hardy, Johnson, Breckenridge, Beauregard and Polk. Original brown blind-embossed cloth binding with raised dot pattern. Gilt lettering on spine. Light rubbing to boards and edges of spine. Very little wear to cover. Pastedowns and flyleaf browned. Interior pages without marking, other than a few spots and minor foxing. This is William Stevenson's account of his time in the Confederate Army, published while the Civil War was ongoing, and after he excaped conscription and returned to New York. The account is chronological and begins with how he came to volunteer, as a northerner visiting the south, and under suspicion of being an abolitionist. He describes his experiences as a volunteer in infantry, ordnance, the cavalry, as a courier, in hospital service, and finally how he escaped being conscripted into the Confederate Army. Hardcover. Condition: near fine. 232 pages, 16mo.