[CIVIL WAR] PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF P. H. SHERIDAN [2 VOLUMES]

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Two large 8vo. volumes; in publisher’s full calf with red and black labels to the spines; xiv, 500 pages, with portrait frontispiece protected with tissue guard, and with portraits and maps, some folded, throughout; xii, 486 pages,including the Index; with portrait frontispiece protected with tissue guard, and with portraits and maps, some folding.~~There is minor loss to the spine of Volume I; there is minor loss to the bottom of the spine of Volume II; the front hinge of Volume II is cracked but holding well.~~The Nevins bibliography considers the book “entertaining but somewhat superficial”. In Eicher, the memoirs is accorded higher praise -- “Sheridan’s works constitutes a military classic with occasionally surprising literary content. In Coulter’s Travels in the Confederate States it is noted that “[i]n the Spring of 1864 [Sheridan] was transferred to the war in the East and put at the head of the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac ... [in which capacity] he won his greatest renown, defeating and killing Stuart at Yellow Tavern and later ravaging the Shenandoah Valley and scattering Early’s army.” (Nevins II, 88; Eichar (1972), 572; Coulter, 414). Very Good binding.