"THE FIRST VICTOR OF THE CONFEDERACY": BIOGRAPHY OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL BEAUREGARD

(BEAUREGARD, Pierre Gustave Toutant) ROMAN, Alfred. The Military Operations of General Beauregard in the War Between the States. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884. Two volumes. Octavo, original green cloth gilt, top edges gilt. $1100.

First edition of this "valuable source on the first victor of the Confederacy" (Eicher 186), with frontispiece portraits, a full-page engraved plate depicting Fort Sumter before and after the War and a full-page map of "The Defences of Charleston City and Harbor."

"This work is highly laudable on its subject and highly critical of Beauregard's enemies; the general himself penned a good part of the text" (Nevins II:86). With sections on Fort Sumter, the secession of Virginia, the battles of Manassas and Shiloh, Confederate administration and a biographical sketch of Beauregard with an account of his service in the war with Mexico during 1846-48. With errata slips at rear of both volumes, publisher's catalogue in Volume II. Dornbusch II:2605. Broadfoot, 390. Early owner ink signatures.

Text clean, expert restoration to inner paper hinges; minor rubs to extremities, near-fine.