358 pp. With 2 engraved portrait plates; 4 maps, 1 of them folding. 8½x5½, original half morocco & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Memoirs of the Confederate general who took over for J.E. Johnston in the western theatre of operations, with less than stellar results. The work is described by Freeman as a "genuinely tragic book, brave and bitter, wistful and manly..., grim in its recountal of the circumstances which defeated his final plan of operations, that had, at least in theory, the possibility of shining success..."