LOSSING, Benson J.

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Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America. First edition of one of the earliest substantial histories of the Civil War, here extensively annotated in the 1940s by Richard Southgate of Vermont. Already a richly illustrated and informative contemporary history, this copy has been transformed by Southgate's annotations into a working encyclopaedia of the conflict.Lossing drew on military officers, participants, and official documents, and undertook two separate thousand-mile journeys to visit battlefields and interview witnesses. Southgate's book label is on the front pastedown. His copious marginal and portrait annotations add biographical details, expanded indices, corrections, and cross-references, with a particular emphasis on Connecticut.

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