Forty Years of Active Service: Being some History of the War Between the Confederacy and the Union and of the Events Leading up to it, with Reminiscences of the Struggle and Accounts of the Author's Experiences of Four Years from Private to Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Colonel in the Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia [cover subtitle: John Brown's Raid, Gen Lee's Army, Virginia Legislature, Lawyer and Judge, Federal Congress, Governor of Virginia]
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1904. First Edition with "Third Thousand" to title page, as in all copies. Octavo. 367 pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt and cream; dark topstain. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges and joints and binding is sound. Contemporary ownership inscription and later stamp..... More