[Rarebooks] fs: Confederate Gen. Turner Ashby

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 11120 )  Thomas, Clarence. GENERAL TURNER ASHBY, THE CENTAUR OF THE 
SOUTH, A MILITARY SKETCH.
Winchester, VA: Eddy Press Corporation, 1907. First printing, Original 
cloth, Octavo, xii, 211 pages, black and white plates. Good, Ex-Library.
      Uncommon Confederate biography with annotations by prior owner who 
served with Ashby and witnessed some of the incidents described. One lengthy 
annotation concerns Col. Ashby's report that Union forces were withdrawing 
from the Valley, which led to Jackson's defeat at Kernstown. Despite that 
mistake, Ashby showed great promise as Stonewall Jackson's cavalry commander 
in the Shenandoah Campaign of 1862. The Virginia native had been promoted to 
Brigadier General just 10 days before being killed near Harrisonburg, 
Virginia June 6, 1862. DORNBUSCH Vol. II, #2587. This copy deaccessioned 
from a private institutional library with their catalogue number at base of 
spine and a few stamps in front matter. Bound in red cloth over boards with 
spine and upper board titled in gilt. A patch of spotting to lower fore 
corner of upper board, mild extremity wear to binding....... $300.00
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