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Rare opportunity to buy complete set of Civil War-themed books

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Here’s an idea for a unique gift for the holidays or other special event:

A very generous longtime CGS member has made a large donation of the complete American Civil War collector’s series published by Time-Life in the 1980s. We have added a lot of the genealogical titles to our collection. We hope to raise funds for the society by selling the duplicate titles and the books that fall outside of our collection criteria. Usually we put such books for sale on our eBay account, but today, in the hope of inspiring some holiday shopping among our historically inclined members, we would like to make this incredible collection of Civil War books available for purchase direct from the library.
We have a complete set of twenty-nine books–twenty-eight titles, one in two volumes–of the Time-Life Books Collector’s Library edition. These are leather-bound reprints of books published during or shortly after the Civil War (see below for titles). The richly illustrated books have gilded page edges, red ribbon bookmarks, and embossed images on the cover.  In excellent condition, they would be a treasure for any Civil War historian, young or old. We would like to sell the set locally to avoid expensive shipping charges. We are asking $160 for the complete set; a bargain at less than $6 a volume!
Interested? Contact our library volunteer Kristi Wessenberg for further information.
Books in the series:

Reminiscences of the Civil War by John B. Gordon
Daring and Sufferingby William Pittenger
Campaigning With Grantby Horace Porter
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
A Rebel War Clerks’ Diary, Volumes 1 & 2 by John B. Jones
Memories, by Fannie A. Beers
Army Memoirs By Lucius W. Barber
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life by Carlton McCarthy
Richmond during the War by Sallie B. Putnam
Hard Tack and Coffeeby John D. Billings
One of Jackson’s Foot Cavalry by John H. Worsham
Mosby’s Rangers by James J. Williamson
Recollections of a Private by Warren Lee Goss
The Citizen-Soldierby John Beatty
Destruction and Reconstruction by Richard Taylor
Three Years in the Sixth Corps by George T. Stevens
The Narrative of a Blockade-runner by John Wilkinson
The Story of a Common Soldier by Leander Stillwell
War from the Insideby Frederick L. Hitchcock
Battle-fields of the South by An English Combatant
Three Months in the Southern States by Arthur J. L. Fremantle
Confederate Operations in Canada and New York by John W. Headley
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant by George Alfred Townsend
A Soldier’s Recollections by Randolph H. McKim
In and Out of Rebel Prisons by Alonzo Cooper
Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman by James Harvey Kidd
Four Years in Rebel Capitals by T. C. DeLeon
Life in the Confederate Army by William Watson


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