Hilt to Hilt, Or, Days and Nights on the Banks of the Shenandoah in the Autumn of 1864. - John Esten Cooke - Books - Gale Ecco, Sabin Americana - 9781275846425 - February 1, 2012
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Hilt to Hilt, Or, Days and Nights on the Banks of the Shenandoah in the Autumn of 1864.

John Esten Cooke

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Hilt to Hilt, Or, Days and Nights on the Banks of the Shenandoah in the Autumn of 1864.

Publisher Marketing: Title: Hilt to hilt, or, Days and nights on the banks of the Shenandoah in the Autumn of 1864. Author: John Esten CookePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04225800CollectionID: CTRG03-B153PublicationDate: 18690101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Publisher's advertising: p. [3]-8, 2nd group. Collation: 270, [3]-8 p.; 19 cm Contributor Bio:  Cooke, John Esten John Esten Cooke was an American novelist, poet and Civil-War veteran best-known for his writings about his home state of Virginia. Although trained as a lawyer, Cooke was able to support himself with his writing from the very beginning of his career, and eventually produced more than 200 published works, including the novels The Virginia Comedians and The Wearing of the Gray, and biographies about General Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. Although Cooke served under General J. E. B. Stuart during the American Civil War, he was not suited to military life and returned to his writing at the war's end. Cooke died 1886 and is commemorated in the John Esten Cooke Fiction Award, awarded annually by the Military Order of the Stars and Bars.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 1, 2012
ISBN13 9781275846425
Publishers Gale Ecco, Sabin Americana
Pages 278
Dimensions 189 × 246 × 15 mm   ·   498 g

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