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Cannon Smoke: Civil War Letters of Captain John J. Good, CSA
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Cannon Smoke: The Letters of Captain John J. Good, Good-Douglas Texas Battery, CSA
Edited by Lester Newton Fitzhugh
Hill Junior College Press, 1971
Texian Press, Waco, Texas
Signed by the editor on second free endpaper.
Hardcover, red cloth with gilt design on front, gilt spine letteringm in graphic dust jacket. Octavo (9 1/4" X 6 1/4"), pp ix, 209, plates (12). includes index.
Dust jacket graphic is a reproduction of Good's Battery in Action, a water color by Andrew Jackson Houston, depicting action on the second day at Pea Ridge, Arkansas.
This volume is the correspondence between John Jay Good, an early Dallas Lawyer and militiaman who took his militia battery to war in 1861, and his wife Susan Anna, who lived at the time on her father's farmstead in what is now East Dallas. Captain Good and his artillery battery accompanied the 3rd Texas Cavalry through the Indian Territory to Northern Arkansas where it was incorporated into the Confederate division of of Brigadier General Ben McCulloch. The climactic event of this campaign was the Battle of Pea ridge. The record of this correspondence throws light on the battle and the events leading up to it.
Condition: Volume is fine, signed by the editor, otherwise almost as new. The dust jacket is very good with slight edge wear and a 1/2" closed tear on the lower edge near the fore corner. Top edge of dust jacket is a little wavy and has some small chips. Now encased in a Brodart archival poly overwrap.
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