Southern History Of The War: First Year Of The War & Second Year Of The War
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Vol I - reprinted from the Richmond corrected edition. Vol II - 2nd ed., Worn and stained boards, binding slightly shaky, no loose pages; portrait plates intact, no markings;
Few accounts of the American Civil War carry the raw, partisan passion of Edward A. Pollard's Southern History of the War, a two-volume chronicle written from the heart of the Confederacy itself. Penned by the firebrand editor of the Richmond Examiner during the conflict's darkest hours, this monumental work presents a ground-level, Confederate perspective on the war's first and second years — from the opening salvos at Fort Sumter through the brutal campaigns that defined the Eastern and Western theatres. Pollard writes not as a detached observer but as a committed Southern voice, and his prose crackles with urgency, indignation, and an unflinching desire to immortalise the Confederate cause in print. As a primary historical document, this set is indispensable to any serious student of the Civil War era, illustrating the ideological and emotional landscape of the antebellum South at the moment of its greatest trial. Pollard's narrative style — colourful, polemical, and at times bracingly opinionated — stands in sharp contrast to the more measured Union accounts of the period, making it a vital counterpoint in the broader historiography of the conflict. Together, these two volumes raise a question that still haunts American memory: how does a defeated nation choose to remember its own war?
Author: Pollard Of Richmond
Format: Hardback
Published: 1863, Charles B. Richardson, New York
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Vol I - reprinted from the Richmond corrected edition. Vol II - 2nd ed., Worn and stained boards, binding slightly shaky, no loose pages; portrait plates intact, no markings;
Few accounts of the American Civil War carry the raw, partisan passion of Edward A. Pollard's Southern History of the War, a two-volume chronicle written from the heart of the Confederacy itself. Penned by the firebrand editor of the Richmond Examiner during the conflict's darkest hours, this monumental work presents a ground-level, Confederate perspective on the war's first and second years — from the opening salvos at Fort Sumter through the brutal campaigns that defined the Eastern and Western theatres. Pollard writes not as a detached observer but as a committed Southern voice, and his prose crackles with urgency, indignation, and an unflinching desire to immortalise the Confederate cause in print. As a primary historical document, this set is indispensable to any serious student of the Civil War era, illustrating the ideological and emotional landscape of the antebellum South at the moment of its greatest trial. Pollard's narrative style — colourful, polemical, and at times bracingly opinionated — stands in sharp contrast to the more measured Union accounts of the period, making it a vital counterpoint in the broader historiography of the conflict. Together, these two volumes raise a question that still haunts American memory: how does a defeated nation choose to remember its own war?