Description
Hardcover in publisher’s dust-jacket. 305 pages. Includes Biographical Directory; Bibliography; and Index. Edited by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins. Foreword by Frank E. Vandiver. History Book Club issue. Eighteen journals from the antebellum period to reconstruction by the highly regarded Chief of Confederate Ordnance. Gorgas journals are more comprehensive than Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Diaries and provide a far greater window into Southern economic, political and filial life. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.