Freedom Triumphant, the Fourth Period of the War of the Rebellion, from September, 1864, to its close-Fast Shipping

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Title: Freedom Triumphant, the Fourth Period of the War of the Rebellion, from September, 1864, to its close

Author: Charles Carleton Coffin

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York

Published: 1891

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Edition: First Edition

Number of Pages: 506

Catalogs: American Civil War, Slavery, Military History

: Illustrated. Original blue cloth binding with gilt and black embossed lettering and decoration on front board and spine. Some remnants of another clothbound book blot part of the cover. Corners are rubbed and slightly bent, wear and slight fraying to the edges of the spine. Glazed brown pastedown and endpapers. Flyleaf and free-front endpaper becoming separated from hinge. Stitching and binding otherwise firm. Pages are slightly tanned. The book describes the military movements of the closing period of the war, beginning in the summer of 1864 in the Shenandoah Valley. The book decribes, among other things, the Army of the West’s march from Atlanta to the sea and through the Carolinas, the Army of the Potomac’s struggles in Petersburg and Richmond, the breaking up of the rebellion, and the assasination of President Lincoln. It also contains the author’s personal observations in the chief cities of the Confederacy. This particular volume is unique for its time, in its discussion of the change of opinion within the Confederacy regarding the employment of slaves as soldiers in the final weeks of the war. The author, Charles Coffin (1823-1896), is clear in describing the institution of slavery as the reason for the succession of the Confederacy, and the book contains the author’s own conversations with recently emancipated slaves, and with white southerners after the emancipation proclamation. This book is the fourth in a series of books Coffin wrote about the Civil War. The volumes which preceded this one were: Drumbeat of the Nation, Marching to Victory, and Redeeming the Republic. Coffin was a prolific author, and also wrote about his travels and boyhood in New England. He died in Brookline, MA in 1896. Hardcover. Condition: very good. Square octavo (7″x9″), 506 pages plus publisher’s list.