A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1865

by George W. Williams

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Engraved frontispiece, plate of medals. v -xvi, 353, 1 pp, plus 12-pages of ads in the rear. 8vo. Publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, a bit cocked, spine darkened, worn at joints and top and tail of spine. Internally clean. Nevins I, p. 216; Lib. Company Afro-Americana, 11239. Item #372418 George Washington Williams' highly-regarded History is perhaps the best of the 19th-century histories

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