[Rarebooks] FA: 3 Odd Civil War Books

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

“MY DEAR WIFE... THE CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF DAVID BRETT, UNION CANNONEER”
Edited by Frank P. Deane. Published by Pioneer Press, Arkansas: 1964.
David Brett was a private in the 9th Battery Massachusetts Light
Artillery. The collection consists of fifty-one letters covering the
period from August 3, 1862 to May 10, 1865. David Brett’s letters
graphically describe what the common soldier thought, what his troubles
and tribulations were, what he worried about, how he missed his home life,
what he saw and did, how he lived in the field and his reactions to the
horrors of the Civil War. Hardcover with dust jacket. 6”x9.5”, 130 pages.


"THE NEGRO IN THE CIVIL WAR" by Herbert Aptheker. Published in New York by
International Publishers in 1938. A very interesting early examination of
the role of African-Americans in the South during the Civil War, including
slave revolts, sabotage, spying, “outlaw communities”, and
African-Americans in both the Northern and Southern armies. Herbert
Aptheker (1915-2003) wrote “Negro People in America”, and also published
“A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States”, which
turned into a series of volumes. Other titles by Aptheker include
“American Negro Slave Revolts” (1966), “Abolitionism: a Revolutionary
Movement” (1989), and “The Literary Legacy of W.E.B. DuBois” (1989). This
1938 book is unusually early, written when he was 23 years old and just
out of Columbia.


"THE CAPTURE AND OCCUPATION OF RICHMOND"  by George A. Bruce, Brevet Lt.
Col. N.S. Vols. Published by the author in 1927.  Colonel Bruce was a
staff officer serving under Major General Charles Devens in the Union Army
of Virginia, under the command of General Alfred H. Terry. His first-hand
account of the march into Richmond and the Union Army taking control there
was penned in order to correct false information that had been published
elsewhere on the subject. It includes details of Abraham Lincoln’s visit,
as well as the ultimate return, after the surrender at Appomattox Court
House, of General Robert E. Lee to the city.


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