WITH SABRE AND SCAPEL - FIRST EDITION 1914 - CONFEDERATE RODE WITH FORREST
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WITH SABRE AND SCALPEL
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SOLDIER AND SURGEON
BY JOHN ALLAN WYETH
Confederate Veteran who Rode with Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest
FIRST EDITION
NEAR FINE CONDITION
Original, Antique Book - Confederate Memoir by Soldier that Rode with Forrest
Contains Photographs, Illustrations and Maps Throughout
Excellent Personal Account of the Antebellum South and Wyeth’s Confederate Service
PUBLISHED BY HARP...ER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK AND LONDON, IN 1914
VALUED BY BROADFOOT AT $400.00
Written by John Allan Wyeth - an Alabama born private that served in the Confederate cavalry until his capture two weeks after the battle of Chickamauga. Wyeth rode with Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest and was the author of one of the earliest and best books on Forrest and his campaigns, Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. After the war he became a noted surgeon dying in 1922.
This book provides an excellent, personal account of life in Antebellum South, Wyeth’s considerable Confederate service, and of his contribution to the field of medicine.
From the Preface: “The chief purpose of this volume is to record from personal observation something of the social, economic, and political conditions which prevailed in the South before, during, and immediately after the Civil War. It was my good fortune to have been born and reared in a section where the wealthy landed proprietors and slave-owners, the poorer whites, and the negroes came together…. In my native county the poor whites greatly outnumbered the rich slaveholders and their slaves…. They were poor, comparatively speaking, but they were not trash. The vast majority were uneducated, many could not read or write; but they were as a class far from being ignorant…. At least three-fourths of the men who carried guns in the battle-line of the Southern Confederacy were of this class. They had no interest directly or indirectly in slavery, and would willingly have seen the negroes freed and colonized out of the country…. The proportion of non-slave-owners in my own company and regiment was greater than seventy-five per cent…. The brave fight these men made was not for slavery…. Should the safety of our institutions ever be endangered I prophesy that these men of the foot-hills and mountains of the South will be the strongest guarantee of law and order….
I am firmly convinced that if instead of the…murderous meddlesomeness of the Northern abolitionists…the humane scheme of emancipation and colonization…would have been carried out and chattel slavery would have disappeared by peaceful means.
That portion of the volume which relates to the Civil War is chiefly a narrative of the every-day life of a private soldier in camp, in battle, and in prison. A single experience - namely, the battle of Chickamauga - is discussed from the standpoint of speculation. In my opinion the Southern Confederacy was won here by desperate valor and lost by the failure of the commanding general to appreciate the magnitude of his victory and to take advantage of the great opportunity which was his for the capture or destruction of the entire Union army in Georgia and Tennessee. Chickamauga, as I interpret it from personal observation and from careful study, marked the high tide of the Confederacy.
I have been asked to describe the sensations or emotions which are experienced under the trying ordeal of battle. The courage, whether moral or physical, or the combination of both, which enables a human being to incur the risk of suffering and death is a common possession.
Part II is devoted mainly to my work as a surgeon and teacher. My aim has been to collect in concise form for convenient reference those original contributions which have been generally accepted by the profession."
THIS BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION
This original, First Edition, antique book is in excellent overall condition. Bound in Confederate-gray colored cloth covers with the image of crossed sabres on the cover and lettering on the spine, the book has solid binding throughout. The exterior has no bumping, but has light soiling and rubbing with a touch of cloth loss to the lower spine tip. The interior is clean and the pages are in excellent condition. The book has a name/address stamp by a prior owner and a handsome, gift inscription (dated 1920) on the front end pages as shown. The book has no other writing in it. It has no smudging, foxing, pasteboards, stamps or other markings and it is not an ex-library book. The book has solidly binding throughout. It has no looseness or lean and both hinges are fine. The book contains a photograph of the author as a frontispiece and other photographs, illustrations and maps throughout. There is a small tear to the spine cloth as shown. 535 pages. Overall this is a nice, original, First Edition book on life in the Old South, and of faithful and honorable service of Confederate Soldiers as written by this Confederate veteran that rode with General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SOLDIER AND SURGEON
BY JOHN ALLAN WYETH
Confederate Veteran who Rode with Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest
FIRST EDITION
NEAR FINE CONDITION
Original, Antique Book - Confederate Memoir by Soldier that Rode with Forrest
Contains Photographs, Illustrations and Maps Throughout
Excellent Personal Account of the Antebellum South and Wyeth’s Confederate Service
PUBLISHED BY HARP...ER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK AND LONDON, IN 1914
VALUED BY BROADFOOT AT $400.00
Written by John Allan Wyeth - an Alabama born private that served in the Confederate cavalry until his capture two weeks after the battle of Chickamauga. Wyeth rode with Lt. General Nathan Bedford Forrest and was the author of one of the earliest and best books on Forrest and his campaigns, Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. After the war he became a noted surgeon dying in 1922.
This book provides an excellent, personal account of life in Antebellum South, Wyeth’s considerable Confederate service, and of his contribution to the field of medicine.
From the Preface: “The chief purpose of this volume is to record from personal observation something of the social, economic, and political conditions which prevailed in the South before, during, and immediately after the Civil War. It was my good fortune to have been born and reared in a section where the wealthy landed proprietors and slave-owners, the poorer whites, and the negroes came together…. In my native county the poor whites greatly outnumbered the rich slaveholders and their slaves…. They were poor, comparatively speaking, but they were not trash. The vast majority were uneducated, many could not read or write; but they were as a class far from being ignorant…. At least three-fourths of the men who carried guns in the battle-line of the Southern Confederacy were of this class. They had no interest directly or indirectly in slavery, and would willingly have seen the negroes freed and colonized out of the country…. The proportion of non-slave-owners in my own company and regiment was greater than seventy-five per cent…. The brave fight these men made was not for slavery…. Should the safety of our institutions ever be endangered I prophesy that these men of the foot-hills and mountains of the South will be the strongest guarantee of law and order….
I am firmly convinced that if instead of the…murderous meddlesomeness of the Northern abolitionists…the humane scheme of emancipation and colonization…would have been carried out and chattel slavery would have disappeared by peaceful means.
That portion of the volume which relates to the Civil War is chiefly a narrative of the every-day life of a private soldier in camp, in battle, and in prison. A single experience - namely, the battle of Chickamauga - is discussed from the standpoint of speculation. In my opinion the Southern Confederacy was won here by desperate valor and lost by the failure of the commanding general to appreciate the magnitude of his victory and to take advantage of the great opportunity which was his for the capture or destruction of the entire Union army in Georgia and Tennessee. Chickamauga, as I interpret it from personal observation and from careful study, marked the high tide of the Confederacy.
I have been asked to describe the sensations or emotions which are experienced under the trying ordeal of battle. The courage, whether moral or physical, or the combination of both, which enables a human being to incur the risk of suffering and death is a common possession.
Part II is devoted mainly to my work as a surgeon and teacher. My aim has been to collect in concise form for convenient reference those original contributions which have been generally accepted by the profession."
THIS BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION
This original, First Edition, antique book is in excellent overall condition. Bound in Confederate-gray colored cloth covers with the image of crossed sabres on the cover and lettering on the spine, the book has solid binding throughout. The exterior has no bumping, but has light soiling and rubbing with a touch of cloth loss to the lower spine tip. The interior is clean and the pages are in excellent condition. The book has a name/address stamp by a prior owner and a handsome, gift inscription (dated 1920) on the front end pages as shown. The book has no other writing in it. It has no smudging, foxing, pasteboards, stamps or other markings and it is not an ex-library book. The book has solidly binding throughout. It has no looseness or lean and both hinges are fine. The book contains a photograph of the author as a frontispiece and other photographs, illustrations and maps throughout. There is a small tear to the spine cloth as shown. 535 pages. Overall this is a nice, original, First Edition book on life in the Old South, and of faithful and honorable service of Confederate Soldiers as written by this Confederate veteran that rode with General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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