George H. Gordon, A War Diary of Events in the War of the Rebellion 1863-1865

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General George H. Gordon’s A War Diary of Events in the War of the Rebellion, 1863-1865, is an uncommon and valuable account of important events outside the usual focus of Civil War history.

This illuminating memoir by a Massachusetts general is largely drawn from his diary. A valuable primary source of the war on the Atlantic coast, the lower Mississippi and Mobile Bay. Gordon was an opinionated and sometimes controversial officer. His account is quite revealing.

“If I am accused of needlessly reviving unhappy memories, I reply that I am constrained to follow my notes, and could not, if I would, after the fashion of later writers, gently intimate that in rebelling against the government in 1861 the South was pardonably in error and a trifle wrong-headed, for the simple reason that during the war no such sentiment existed.”

Previous owner’s stamp; usual toning; light shelf wear; else very good. Handsome example of an important work.

Gordon, George H. A WAR DIARY OF EVENTS IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. 1863-1865. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882. 1st edition, 437p., illus., maps.