[Rarebooks] fs: General Grant's Strategy, by John Collins Jackson, 1910

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 9599 )  Jackson, John Collins (1848-1909). GRANT'S STRATEGY AND OTHER 
ADDRESSES.
Westerville, OH: American Issue Publishing Company, (1910). First printing, 
Original cloth, Duodecimo, 165 pages + ads, black and white portrait. Very 
Good.
      Jackson was a Methodist minister and in later life edited The American 
Issue, which was the official organ of the Anti-Saloon League. He had 
enlisted, at age 15, in Company H, 159th Ohio Volunteer Infantry where he 
served as a drummer and fifer. His address on the strategy of General Grant 
at Chattanooga discusses the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary 
Ridge. This is followed by an address on the Union and Confederate armies 
during the war. The rest of the book contains other sermons and a 
biographical history of Jackson. Uncommon. Bound in dark blue cloth over 
boards with black topstain, faded gilt spine titles. There is a 
tissue-guarded photographic portrait of Jackson preceding the title page. 
Minor extremity wear....... $75.00
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