2 volumes. xxi, [3], 707; xvii, [3], 808 pp. With 17 steel-engraved plates, including frontispiece portraits; 2 wood-engraved plates; 18 maps, 14 of them folding. 9x5½, original sheep, leather spine labels, marbled endpapers and edges. First Edition.

The president of the Confederate States of America justifies his actions, and apologizes for his mistakes; one of the more important and detailed reminiscences to come out of the war. With rubberstamp of George C. Perkins, one-time governor of California, to the front flyleaves.