Manual of instruction for the volunteers and militia of the Confederate States

by William Gilham

$2,250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Richmond, Va. West & Johnson, 1862. 8vo, pp. 559, 1 ; 87 plates, 7 of them folding; original publisher's burgundy cloth; spine sunned, corners bumped, occasional light offsetting on plates, very good. A difficult book to find in decent condition. Gilham was a Confederate colonel and instructor at West Point and the Virginia Military Institute. His Manual of Instruction was written at the behest of Virginia Governor Wise as a response to the raid of

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