A MEMOIR OF THE LAST YEAR OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, IN THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE OPERATIONS OF HIS COMMANDS IN THE YEARS 1864 AND 1865. BY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL JUBAL A. EARLY, OF THE PROVISIONAL ARMY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES. DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE HEROIC DEAD, WHO FELL FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY, RIGHT & JUSTICE.
Toronto: Lovell & Gibson, 1866. x, [2], [13]-144 pp. Stitched in later marbled wrappers. A few wrapper chips, Very Good.
This first edition was reprinted in New Orleans, Augusta, and Lynchburg in 1867. Early, says Nevins, was "a caustic Confederate general." Claiming to have labored "honestly and earnestly to preserve the Union," he voted against secession in the Virginia Convention. But he was turned around "by the mad, wicked, and unconstitutional measures of the authorities at Washington, and the frenzied clamour of the people of the North for war upon their former brethren of the South. I then, and ever since have, regarded Abraham Lincoln, his counsellors and supporters, as the real traitors..."
Now, the War over and writing from Toronto, "I have come into exile rather than submit to the yoke of the oppressors of my country." Early's preface is dated November, 1866. An errata list is at page [xii].
Howes E14aa. I Nevins 84. III Dornbusch 1708. Nicholson 263. Item #38987
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