Description:
The Veteran's Story Ada Christine Lightsey
"Dedicated to the Heroes, Who Wore the Gray"
NOT a print-on-demand and NOT a re-print – the Original hard cover
First Edition First Printing
Copyright April 3rd, 1899
The Meridian News, Printers and Binders - Meridian, Mississippi
51 numbered pages
Approximately 5" X 9"
Hard Cover - original blind-stamped cloth
A good bit of wear and staining to the covers (see photo); pencil marks to inside rear covers (see photo); staining and foxing to several pages (see photos); text pages are relatively clean and unmarked; tearing at spine but still bound (see photo)
Extremely rare in original First Edition – almost always seen as re-print or print-on-demand
"The Confederate memoirs of R. J. Lightsey as told to his daughter. Lightsey served as a private in Co. F (the Jasper Greys), 16th Mississippi Infantry. Includes accounts of Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg. Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, Spottsylvania, and… Read More