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William Nathaniel Wood Reminiscences of Big I
Charlottesville, VA privately published 1909 First Edition Hardcover Collectible: Good Hardcover
The Michie Company Printers, 7 1/2 inches, 107 pages, preface by C. C. Wertenbaker, original cloth over boards with gilt titles. One of 200 copies circulated among friends and relatives of Lieut. Wood, not offered for sale. Extremities worn, boards have scattered light mottling, paper split in portions of inner hinges with webbing visible, free endpaper fore edges worn with tiny splits, contents very good and binding is tight. "Wood entered the Monticello Guard of Charlottesville, Co. A, Nineteenth Virginia Regiment, on July 20th, 1861, the evening before the first battle of Manassas, and had his 'baptism of fire' the next day.....He was soon promoted to a Lieutenancy, and for much of the latter part of the war, was in command of the Company. At the battle of Gettysburg, after Captain Culin was wounded, he commanded the company, and led it to the stone wall, and what is more wonderful, he went back under the most terrific fire from the stone wall and on each flank. His clothing was riddled with shot, but he excaped with a slight scratch under one arm. Wood was, I think, in every encounter in which his company was engaged during the whole war, and he, with what was left of it, was captured at Tailor's Creek, April 6th, 1865, just three days before Lee's surrender."---C. C. Wertenbaker
Price:
950.00 USD
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