A Wisconsin Boy In Dixie: The Selected Letters of James K. Newton
by Newton, James K.; edited by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1961. Letters home from a Wisconsin schoolteacher who volunteered for infantry duty in 1961; he rose to the rank of lieutenant, seeing service at Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, on the Red River, in Missouri, at Nashville & Mobile, confined for a short time as a POW, and finally serving with occupation forces in Alabama before his mustering out and return to Wisconsin. Ambrose's first book. Hardcover. Light wear to book, jacket rubbed with minor scuffs & stains, badly faded spine; ink gift note on free endsheet. Text clean; xviii, 188 pages; index, roster of Company F, 14th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, b/w plates, 3 maps.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- s0835
- Title
- A Wisconsin Boy In Dixie: The Selected Letters of James K. Newton
- Author
- Newton, James K.; edited by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Place of Publication
- Madison
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Civil War, Memoir, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Reconstruction, Alabama
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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