Pen and Sword, The Life and Journals of Randal W. McGavock

Nashville, Tennessee:: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1959. A square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket has a few short closed tears (half-inch, or less) and shows minor soil, mostly on the white parts. Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are clean. No foxing. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Contains a biography of McGavock by Herschel Gower, and his journals -- edited by Gower (for 1848-1851) & by Jack Allen (for 1853-1862). Randall W. McGavock (1826-1863) was a Harvard law student, mayor of Nashville, colonel in the Confederate Army, a prisoner of war, keen observer, and diarist with literary talent. Illustrations. Portraits. Document facsimiles. Index. Bound in the original gray cloth, lettered in shiny gold on front cover, and over a blue spine panel. From the Dust Jacket: "In his thirty-six years Randall McGavock led a life filled with adventure, and the story of that life is here brilliantly told for the first time… [Read here] the story of Randal's courageous stand at Forts Henry and Donelson, his incisive criticism of the blundering Confederate commanders, his life of confinement as a prisoner of war at Fort Warren, and his joyous reunion with his regiment in 1862. Randall McGavock had few equals as a diarist." Nevins/Robertson/Wiley I, p. 125 [CIVIL WAR BOOKS, A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY]: "Contains the diaries of the colonel of the 10th Tennessee; McGavock spent some time in a Federal prison and then was killed at the battle of Raymond, Mississippi.". First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./Very Good DJ (price clipped). Thick 8vo. (viii), 696pp..