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BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, viii, (9)-578 pgs, fronts portrait, 4 text maps. Original patterned and embossed brown cloth; gilt titled spine with original dark endpapers. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Very light rubbing two edges, spine ends rubbed, some edge fading, else very good+. Interior has two older former owner bookplates, one dated 1938; else pages are age-toned, some scattered foxing, otherwise pages are clean and tight. Overall an excellent copy in original cloth of a book often found in rough condition or rebound. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: John Hunt Morgan was a Confederate general in the American Civil War known mostly by his now famous Raid; an operation now known as 'Morgan's Raid'. Morgan sought to slow the Union growth in both Vicksburg and Gettysburg by moving Confederate troops throughout the North hoping to draw Union armies toward the raiders and away from strongholds. Morgan was shot and killed during his raid; however, one of Morgan's officers, Basil Duke, wrote a memoir on the life of General Morgan following the War a work which provides incredible first-hand details on the raid and its influence on the Civil War. REFERENCES: HOWES D 557 "b"; COLEMAN 1177 "This work is the standard account of General John H. Morgan and his Confederate Cavalry. The author, Basil Duke, assumed command of Morgan's Cavalry after the death of General Morgan in 1864."; EICHER 1060: "This is a classic work about John Hunt Morgan's legendary cavalry exploits, written by Morgan's brother-in-law and a brigadier general in his own right. The narrative is conversational in tone, praiseful of Morgan, and describes many soldiers of Morgan's command and their adventures in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and elsewhere. A focused military narrative of Morgan's operations, the work is valuable for Duke's eyewitness recollections recorded soon after the war.". N° de ref. del artículo 0224029
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