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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Heroes of the Great Conflict, Life and Services of William Farrar Smith, Major General, United States Volunteer in the Civil War.

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Wilmington De: John M. Rogers Press, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Much shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the bookcovers rubbed, spine sunned, hinges clumsily repaired. Clean and unmarked. James Harrison Wilson wrote several of these mini biographies of Civil War notables. A Major General himself he also wrote on the Spanish AMerican War his experiences in China and on the Boxer Rebellion. A graduate of the West Point class of 1860. A military engineer, he quickly rose through the ranks attaining the rank of Brevet major General as a cavalryman under Phillip Sheridan. The subject of this biography William Farrar Smith,a Vermonter, was also a military engineer who rose while serving in various commands during the war. Smith was alternately praised and blamed for vrious actions through the war and was eventually relieved of his command.From the Arlington Cemetary website biography of Smith: "His Corps was attached to the Army of the Potomac in time to take part in bloody repulse… Read More

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WILSON, James Harrison. Life and Services of William Farrar Smith, Major General, United States Volunteers, in the Civil War. A Sketch. Wilmington, DE: The John M. Rogers Press, 1904. 1st ed. 130 pp. Portrait frontis., plates. Very good in orig. cloth, T.e.g. Life of a brigadier general by another brigadier general. Dornbusch II-2470.