The Life and Services of Commodore Josiah Tattnall

by Charles C. Jones, Jr.

$250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Savannah, GA : Morning News Steam Printing House, 1878. First edition. 8vo. x, 255, 4 pp. Portrait frontispiece. A career U.S. Naval officer and Savannah native, Tattnall 1795-1871 served as a senior officer for the Confederacy, in charge of Georgia and South Carolina naval defenses. Howes J-201. Nevins I, p. 227: An over-romantic but reliable work which includes some of Tattnall's wartime correspondence not published elsewhere. Original plum cloth, gilt

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