Yankees A'Coming: One Month's Experience During the Invasion of Liberty County, Georgia, 1864-1865 de Mary Sharpe Jones and Mary Jones Mallard - 2000

Wilmington, North Carolina: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2000. Yankees A'Coming: One Month's Experience During the Invasion of Liberty County, Georgia, 1864-1865(Confederate Centennial Studies number 12). The day-to-day, sometimes hour-by-hour, account of Yankee o ccupation of the Southern home of Mary Sharpe Jones, widow of a Presbyterian minister, and her pregnant daughter Mary Jones Mallard, also married to a Presbyterian minister, between December 1864 and January 1865 in Liberty County Georgia. This account was only printed in it's entirety once before, by the Confederate Publishing Company of Tuscaloosa Alabama in 1959. A limited edition of 450 copies was printed at that time. This copy is one of a reprint of that edition, limited to 750 copies, and is signed by the Haskell Monroe who was the editor of this edition and was also responsible for the Prologue. Mr. Monroe was associated with the Rice Research Institute in 1959, later to become the Chancellor of Administration at the University of Missouri from 1987 to 1992. Mr. Monroe is a renowned Southern History scholar. Book Condition is Very Fine; taupe cloth over boards with black leetering on spine. 102pp. Bibliography, index. Book is Pristine, inside and out. Signed on the title half page by Editor. Dust Jacket Condition is Very Fine; pristine. Covered with a mylar dust jacket. A prettier copy you're not likely to fine.. Signed By Editor. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. History/Georgia/Civil War.