The Battle of Seven Pines

by Gustavus Smith

$1,500 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition · Signed

New York: C. G. Crawford, 1891. First edition. 8vo. 202 pp. Maps, facsimiles. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to E. J. Quirk, a contractor who worked on engineering projects with Robert E. Lee in New York in the 1840s Washington and Lee holds an 1866 letter from Quirk to Lee referring to this relationship . Smith 1821-1896 , a Kentucky native, graduated from West Point in 1842, and fought in the Mexican War before spending most of the 1850s

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