Life and Deeds of General Sherman with the Story of His Great March to the Sea

Northrop, Henry Davenport. Life and Deeds of General Sherman Including the Story of His Great March to the Sea. Philadelphia: National Publishing Co, ca. 1891. [12063] Brown cloth decorated in bright gilt and black, binding is clean and near-fine with just a slight dullness to the gilt on the spine, tight, 8 x 5 1/2 inches. Marbled page edges, end papers with ivy design, former owner's signature on front end paper, one on the rear his partly scuffed away. Striking wood-engraved portrait of Sherman in uniform as frontispiece, with tissue guard. 568 clean pp. with many plates and text-illustrations. A very good copy indeed. Very good. Hardcover. Title continues: Being a Graphic Narrative of His Boyhood and Early Life; Education at West Point; Career in Florida, California and Louisiana; Daring Deeds at Shiloh, Corinth and Vicksburg; Sublime Achievements in the Georgia and Tennessee Campaigns, and Closing Scenes of the Great Struggle, etc, etc., comprising Thrilling Descriptions of Battles, Marches, and Victories; Personal Anecdotes; Life as a Citizen; Last Sickness and Death; the Nation's Sorrow, and Magnificent Tributes to the Great Commander, Hero, and Patriot. Superbly Embellished with Striking Illustrations. William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), b. Lancaster, Ohio; d. New York City. The unrelenting and sometimes ruthless Union Civil War general who worked closely with Grant to defeat the Southern Confederacy.