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NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1876
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© 1871, this edition is a reprint
Cloth hardcover
9-3/8" tall, vi and 577 pages , frontispiece portrait engraving,
illustrations, maps, and a folding map at rearOwner signature and bookplate of GEORGE P. TAITT
[who served with the 142nd New York Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War].
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Slightly worn, soiled and spotted, short tear at top of spine,
contents agetoned, inner hinges neatly repaired with archival glue,
but still in quite good and serviceable condition.
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The following information was taken from the Wikipedia:
For the rest of the article, click here: wikipediaJohn Esten Cooke (November 3, 1830 – September 27, 1886) was an American novelist and poet........In March and April 1862, Cooke served as an unpaid volunteer aide for Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart in the Confederate cavalry. Cooke was a first cousin of General Stuart's wife, Flora Cooke Stuart. On May 19, 1862, he was formally commissioned as a lieutenant and officially joined Stuart's staff. Cooke participated in the Peninsula Campaign and Stuart's subsequent ride around the Union army of George B. McClellan, later writing a detailed description of the action. During the war, he served Stuart as an aide, ordnance officer, and assistant adjutant general, earning the rank of captain. Following Stuart's death at Yellow Tavern in May 1864, Cooke served on other generals' staffs, eventually rising to the rank of major by the end of the war. In 1863, he wrote the first of several popular biographies of Stonewall Jackson. He also published a novel on Jackson, Surry of Eagle's Nest (1866) as well as a biography of Robert E. Lee, officers that he had personally known.....
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