Following The Greek Cross Or, Memories Of The Sixth Army Corps Hyde, Thomas W. Military,Military History

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 12 mo, frontis, numerous portraits, xi, 269 pgs. Decorative covers with red, blue, silver, and gold gilt on two-toned green cover and spine; gilt titled cover and spine, top edges brown stained as published. Stated Second Edition. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Covers are bright with light rubbing to edges and spine ends. Faint soiling to lower edge. Interior hinges are cracked, front free endpaper repaired, but otherwise clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Very nice copy of a well written personal narrative of fighting in the Army of the Potomac. REFERENCES: DORN III #1329; NEVINS I pg 109: “An excellent memoir by a Maine officer whose valor in Eastern campaigns brought him brevet promotion to brigadier general.” MULLINS/REED #16: “A superior memoir by a Maine officer whose luminous reminiscences provide an excellent description of army life in general and of the Sixth Corps in particular.” EISNER 1031: “This experience (Hyde’s staff service) and a competent and entertaining literary style game him the ability to pen a work that is not only a memoir of his own service but an overview of the corps. The result is an excellent work that retains its value today.”