CHEAT MOUNTAIN; OR, UNWRITTEN CHAPTER OF THE LATE WAR. BY A MEMBER OF THE BAR. FAYETTEVILLE, TENN.
Nashville, Tennessee: Albert B. Tavel, Stationer and Printer, 1885. 128 pp. Hardcover in original cloth with minor wear to extremities. The binding is separating along the spine (see photo). A gift inscription on the front pastedown reads "Presented to Capt. Armstrong of the 8th Tenn. Regiment by his friend Capt. G. M. (illegible) of the same regiment, Fayetteville, Tenn 1888." The back two (blank) endpages are torn and partly detached and there is some soiling to the covers, otherwise Good condition. Not Ex-Lib.
A true rarity -- an account of the actions of the 8th and 16th Tennessee infantries in the fall and winter 1861 campaign in the mountains of northwestern Virginia which marked the first time R.E. Lee led troops in combat. DORNBUSCH II, 1008. Not in NEVINS. Not in NICHOLSON. Item #101440
Price: $1,500.00