Author Name: Chancellor, Sir Christopher w/preface by Whitehill, Dr. W. M., Photos, Maps & Illustrations
Title: AN ENGLISHMAN IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR the Diaries of Henry Yates Thompson 1863
Publisher: New York, NY: New York University Press, 1971
Seller ID: 026375
HB. Very Good-/Very Good. Sm4to from 9" to 11". xviii, 185 pp, red cloth covered boards, dj light green, brown, blu w/red lettering w/color wraparound illustration. Henry Yates Thompson, a young Englishman, travelled in America after leaving Cambridge in 1863. He left a perceptive account of his journey. He talked to everyone he met: to politicians & to wounded soldiers on the battlefield, to generals & to hotel-keepers, to preachers & to slaves, to academics & to farmers. He travelled deep into the West, visiting salve famrs in eastern Maryland, and stood next to General Grant during the battle of Chattanooga. Diary is illustrated with mementoes of the trip, his own sketches an dcontemporary prints & photographs. light insect chipping to finish of boards along bottom & top edges.
AMERICANA CIVIL WAR JOURNEY DIARY PHOTOS, MAPS & ILLUSTRATIONS 0814713564 NON-FICTION MILITARY HISTORY
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