John Bell Hood, Advance and Retreat. 1st Ed, in Leather Binding

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John Bell Hood’s Advance and Retreat is a compilation of Hood’s writings assembled by G. T. Beauregard after the author’s death from yellow fever. Hood refights the Civil War with particular focus on his conflicts with General Joseph E. Johnston and General William T. Sherman. A crucial source for understanding Gettysburg, the Atlanta Campaign and many other battles.

Robert Johannsen describes Hood’s writing as “controversial, sometimes bitter.”

Douglas Southall Freeman wrote “This is a genuinely tragic book, brave and bitter, wistful and manly, touched with humor in the early chapters, grim in its recountal of the circumstances which defeated his final plan of operations.” (The South to Posterity).

This volume re-cased in publishers’ presentation binding using 90% original leather and original marbled end pages. Shaken front hinge; lightly foxed. Previous owner’s signature and personal library mark. Quite handsome!

Hood, J. B. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies. New Orleans: Hood Orphan Memorial Fund, 1880. 1st edition in publishers presentation binding, 358p., frontispiece, portrait, maps, folding map, appendix, (Howes H-622).