Product code: 1867 TOUR OF SOUTH CSA AFTER CIVIL WAR J.T. TROWBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED FIRST deals EDITION
FROM 1867, soon after the Civil War, this is the first edition of a Southern USA travel classic, The South, A tour of its Battlefields and Ruined Cities. A Journey through the desolated States and Talks with the People. By J.T. Trowbridge, published by L. Stebbins, Hartford, Connecticut. Sized 9x5 inches, bound in period cloth, 590 pages. Profusely deals illustrated. He is today perhaps best remembered for his study The South: A Tour of Its Battlefields and Ruined Cities (1867, republished two years later with additions by another author as A Picture of the Desolated States and the Work of Reconstruction, 1865-1868). Trowbridge toured much of the defeated Confederacy during the summer of 1865 and the following winter. He observed carefully, and talked with a wide variety of people of both sexes, including freedmen, die-hard Rebels, Unionists, farmers, businessmen, refugees, and Northern entrepreneurs. In his book, he lets these people speak in their voices, often adding his own commentary.
FROM 1867, soon after the Civil War, this is the first edition of a Southern USA travel classic, The South, A tour of its Battlefields and Ruined Cities. A Journey through the desolated States and Talks with the People. By J.T. Trowbridge, published by L. Stebbins, Hartford, Connecticut. Sized 9x5 inches, bound in period cloth, 590 pages. Profusely deals illustrated. He is today perhaps best remembered for his study The South: A Tour of Its Battlefields and Ruined Cities (1867, republished two years later with additions by another author as A Picture of the Desolated States and the Work of Reconstruction, 1865-1868). Trowbridge toured much of the defeated Confederacy during the summer of 1865 and the following winter. He observed carefully, and talked with a wide variety of people of both sexes, including freedmen, die-hard Rebels, Unionists, farmers, businessmen, refugees, and Northern entrepreneurs. In his book, he lets these people speak in their voices, often adding his own commentary.