[PRESENTATION COPY] [CIVIL WAR] A GLANCE AT CURRENT HISTORY

Glen Allen, VA: Cussons, May & Company, 1899. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. 12mo; in publisher’s burgundy cloth binding; with tilting on the upper board and spine in gilt; [5] 6-172 pages; minor wear to the boards.~~Inscribed by the author on the first blank leaf “Dr. Clarence Price with all good wishes from The Writer” ~~“Colonel John Cussons” Senator John W. Daniel once said, “was by instinct a Confederate, by adoption a Virginian, and performed rare deeds of ‘high emprise.’~ Born in England, Cussons immigrated to America at age seventeen, where he spent several years with the Sioux Indians and later fought valiantly for the Confederate cause. He helped capture Fort Stribling, took part in the occupation of Fort Morgan, and finally witnessed Pickett’s charge after being captured at Gettysburg. “A Glance at Current History” (or the alternative 1900 title “United States ‘History’ as the Yankee Makes it and Takes it”) offers a support for the Confederate philosophy while attacking Northern actions and beliefs, including the Northern treatment of the American Indian. In Nevins’ view, A Glance contains ~“[i]nteresting essays by a former Confederate soldier who opposed disunion but believed in states’ rights” [Nevins II, 9]. (Nevins II, 9). Very Good binding / no dust jacket. (Inventory #: 298859)