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1851 1ed CIVIL WAR PROVENANCE General Wilson Slavery
1851 1ed CIVIL WAR PROVENANCE General Wilson Slavery
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1851 1ed CIVIL WAR PROVENANCE General Wilson Slavery Southern Quarterly Review



“The Southern Quarterly Review” is a collection of reviews on common issues published in April of 1851. This collection contains issues around slavery in the world and America, history of Greece, Voyages of Americus Vespucius, zoology, physical geography, journalism in the US, and much more.



This book was owned by the topographic engineer, Major General James H. Wilson of the United States Union Army during the US Civil War. It was Wilson’s cavalry unit who captured Confederate president Jefferson Davis near the end of the Civil War.



Item number: #13668

Price: $499



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The Southern Quarterly Review.



Charleston, South Carolina: Walker and Richards, 1851. First Edition.



Details:

Collation:

306-572

Provenance:

Handwritten – J.H. Wilson

James Harrison Wilson (1837 – 1925) was a United States Army topographic engineer and a Union Army Major General in the American Civil War. He served as an aide to Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan during the Maryland Campaign before joining Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's army in the Western Theater, where he was promoted to brigadier general.

In 1864, he transferred from engineering to the cavalry, where he displayed notable leadership in many engagements of the Overland Campaign, though his attempt to destroy Lee’s supply lines failed when he was routed by a much smaller force of Confederate irregulars.

He was promoted to brevet major general in the regular army for his performance at Selma and received his full promotion to major general on May 6, 1865. In central Georgia, the cavalrymen under Wilson's command captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and Captain Henry Wirz, the commandant of Andersonville, as he fled through Georgia in May 1865. Wilson's administration of post-war Georgia was regarded, in some cases, as enlightened.

Handwritten – Robert R. Hemphill

Sgt. Maj. Robert R. Hemphill was a Confederate soldier who served with the 1st South Carolina Infantry Regiment (Provisional Army), G Company during the American Civil War.

References: Hemphill Family Papers;

Language: English

Binding: Softcover; secure

Size: ~9in X 6in (23cm x 15cm)

Rare and desirable



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