Bright Skies and Dark Shadows
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.
Price: $175.00
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 316pp. Green cloth gilt. Illustrated with maps. Two corners slightly bumped, spine tips rubbed, else a near fine, bright copy. Inscribed by Henry M. Field on the second front flyleaf: "Miss Alice DeWitt Sprague, From her friend Henry M. Field. Feb. 5th 1894." The author's recollections of the Civil War, with discussions of Florida's "race problem." Chapters include: "Capacity of the Negro," "Expatriation of a Whole Race," "The Last Days of General Lee," "Stonewall Jackson and the Valley Campaign," etc.
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