This antique soft cover 1863 edition of The War for the Union part 43 and 44 is a great addition to your collection A History of the Great American Rebellion during the War with the South has original illustrated front and back wrappers in pastel gray/ blue coloring with black imagery measures 8.5 x 11 inches with original hand sewn binding intact This is a quarto volume where normally trimming will separate the leaves of a bound book. A sheet folded in quarto will have folds at the spine and also across the top, so the folds must be trimmed away before the leaves can be turned This rare edition still has the top of the leaves attached and not trimmed. Pagination runs from 469-516, with text beginning and ending mid-sentence. A one page chart or topographical map of Port Hudson and its defences, constructed and engraved to illustrated The War with the South is protected by a sheet of a vellum style page. Joseph Hook who was an American Civil War general for the Union is illustrated and is remembered for his defeat by Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 Commission on Harpers Ferry, After Battle of Antietam, Stuart in Pennsylvania, McClellan removed from command, Bragg in Kentucky, Kirby Smith in Kentucky, Battle of Chaplin Hills, Buell's Report, defense of Cumberland Gap, Morgans March, Hamilton's Occupation, Defeat of Pride are some of the pages written by Robert Tomes, MD