ALABAMA: HER HISTORY, RESOURCES, WAR RECORD, AND PUBLIC MEN, from 1540 to 1872

Montgomery, AL: Barrett & Brown, Steam Printers and Book Binders, 1872. First edition. 8vo. 712 pp. Howes B-755: "Best general history of this state; admirable supplement to Pickett." Owen, pp. 842-847: "This book must be regarded as the most valuable general contribution to the history of this state yet made ... author has displayed wonderful industry in collecting so much of interest and importance. His work possesses the greatest merit in that its accuracy of statements of fact is in the main without fault. The county histories give it local flavor (truncated) ... biographies are numerous [and] so excellent ... the fullest account that has been published about Alabama troops in the several wars." Ownership signature, dated in the year of publication, of E.A. O'Neal (1818-1890), Governor of Alabama, 1882-1886, and colonel and commander of the 26th Alabama Infantry during the Civil War, a unit that was heavily engaged in most of the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia. Very good. Original plum cloth, gilt spine title (small label on spine, no other markings). (9103). (Inventory #: 66412)