Active Service

Castleman, Jno. B.

Editore: Courier0Journal Job Printing Co., 1917

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1917 signed and inscribed first edition, Courier-Journal Job Printing Co. (Louisville, Kentucky), 7 1/8 x 10 1/2 inches tall embossed green cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, blue lettering to font cover and spine, copiously illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs and facsimiles on high-quality paper, 2679 pp. Slight to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with bumping to all four tips. Slight age toning to blank front and rear free-endpapers. Three pages with moderate shadows from press clippings once laid in. 1917 owner name to blank front free-endpaper. On the half title page, nicely inscribed to a Louisville resident and signed by the author, John B. Castleman, dated May 1, 1918, three weeks before the general's death and some six months before the end of World War I. Otherwise, apart from slight age toning, a very good copy - clean and unmarked - of this scarce issue, especially rare as a signed copy. ~JJ~ [3.0P] The autobiography of John Breckinridge Castleman (1841-1918), a Confederate officer and later a United States Army brigadier general in the Spanish-American War as well as a prominent landowner and businessman in Louisville, Kentucky. Few lives had more drama and change than Castleman's. Born into privilege in Kentucky, a Border State in the Civil War, he fought for the Confederacy with Morgan and participated in the NW Conspiracy to free rebel prisoners. He was captured, tried, sentenced to death, and given exile instead by Abraham Lincoln. He finally returned to the U.S. in 1866 and later served as a general in the Spanish War. This memoir is replete with description of the momentous events in which he participated, some of which are only slightly covered elsewhere. He also provides an account of the 50th anniversary gathering at Gettysburg, which he attended. Despite his service for the Confederacy, as a general he was known to defend the black soldiers under his command, and while Commissioner of the Louisville Board of Parks refused to allow segregation there. His statue at a traffic circle in the Cherokee Triangle neighborhood of Louisville, the John B. Castleman Monument, became a well-known local landmark, but was moved to Castleman's burial ground in 2020.

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• Titolo: Active Service
• Editore: Courier0Journal Job Printing Co.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1917
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good