MILITARY OPERATIONS IN GEORGIA DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES

Description: MILITARY OPERATIONS IN GEORGIA DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE CONFEDERATE SURVIVORS’ ASSOCIATION IN AUGUST, GEORGIA ON THE OCCASSION OF THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REUNION MEMORIAL DAY, APRIL 26th, 1893 BY COLONEL CHARLES C. JONES, JR., LL.D. Confederate Veteran and President of the Association CHICKAMAUGA BY COLONEL JOSEPH B. CUMMING A Member of the Association FIRST EDITION FINE - CONDITION Protected in a clear, acid-free, archival sleeve with protective paperboard backing. Original, Clean, Tight, Antique Wrap Booklet Account of the Siege and Evacuation of Savannah, Georgia, During the Civil War THIS ORIGINAL WRAP WAS PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE ASSOCIATION BY CHRONICLE JOB PRINTING COMPANY, AUGUST, GEORGIA, IN 1893 DORNBUSCH III, 2599 This rare, original, antique, first edition, wrap/booklet provides an excellent address to the Confederate Survivors’ Association by Confederate Colonel Charles Jones on Military Operations in the State of Georgia. Additionally, it provides a poem on Chickamauga by Colonel Joseph Cummings. Colonel Charles C. Jones, Jr. was the foremost Georgia historian of the nineteenth century, a noted autograph and manuscript collector, and an accomplished amateur archaeologist. Jones in later years became a prominent memorialist of the Lost Cause and critic of the New South. Born in Savannah in 1831 into prominent, tidewater, planting family, he was educated at South Carolina College, the College of New Jersey (later named Princeton University, and Harvard University. He practiced law and participated in the management of his family’s rice and cotton plantations before the Civil War. Elected Mayor of Savannah in 1860, Jones supported secession. After Georgia joined the Confederacy in 1861, he enlisted as an officer of the Chatham Artillery. Soon promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the Confederate Army and to the position of Chief of Artillery for the Military District of Georgia, Jones service conspicuously during the 1864 Siege of Savannah. Financially ruined by the war, he moved his legal practice in 1866 to New York City where he made some progress in mending his fortunes. In 1877, he returned to practice law in Georgia and over the next 16 years increased his fame as a historian, collector and orator before dying in 1893. FINE - CONDITION This original, first edition, antique, wrap booklet is in excellent overall condition. It comes protected in a clear, archival sleeve with protective paperboard backing. The booklet is clean and doesn’t have a mark in on or in it. The cover has some light edge chipping, but the booklet is in fine condition otherwise. The booklet is clean, tight and uncut. The pages are in fine condition with no writing, smudging, foxing, stamps or other markings. One corner of the real cover is cut off. The booklet contains 32 pages. It contains a list of Officers of the Confederate Survivors’ Association. An excellent condition, original, first edition wrap/booklet. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's FREE Counter

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