The Embattled Confederacy, the Image of War: 1861-1865 Volume III by William ...

The Embattled Confederacy
The Image of War:  1861-1865, Volume III
by William C. Davis, Editor and Bell I. Wiley, Senior Consulting Editor
Publisher:  Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Copyright 1982
Over 650 Civil War Photographs in this Volume

Irony, which seems to thrive on warfare, was in full flower by September 1862.  Federal troops had virtually been driven from Virginia; Major General George B. McClellan's enormous force had fled the Peninsula east of Richmond in the face of Lee's counterattacks in the Seven Days Campaign; at the battle of Second Manassas the combined armies of Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson had devastated the Union Army under Major General John Pope, and the demoralized soldiers of the North were taking up positions in the fortifications around Washington.

The tide, nevertheless, had begun to turn against the South.  A quarter of the Confederate Army was lost at Antietam.  The "blunder" at Fredericksburg weakened it despite Lee's last victory at Chancellorsville in April 1863, a victory bought at too high a price:  "Stonewall" Jackson was dead.  The South had bled too hard, and even the glittering victories and the daring military virtuosity of its generals were draining the reserves of men and material with a too prodigal hand.

The camera was there to record it all.  In these pages of matchless photographs -- many never before published -- we see an imperishable legacy from a new art, a new industry, as a new nation was tearing itself apart.

The Image of War:  1861-1865 is an unrivalled expression of the Civil War through the photographer's eyes.  To create this dramatic record, researchers for the national Historical Society traveled more than 30,000 miles, crossing the Atlantic to England and the Pacific to Australia, in order to examine more than 100,000 rare photographs of the conflict.

In 1911 Francis T. Miller published a Photographic History of the Civil War in ten volumes.  It was an impressive record, although primitive and often inaccurate by modern standards.  Many collections were missed, most notably the MOLLUS (Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Collection, assembled in Boston in 1880 and housed since 1974 at the United States Army Military History Institute in Carlisle barracks, Pennsylvania.  The Chicago Historical Society and the Western Reserve Historical Society were two other largely untapped sources that have been discovered in recent years.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the short title page.  Dust cover and flaps are tanned from age.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear and tear and creasing.  THIS IS A SIX POUND BOOK.

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