LIFE OF GENERAL JOHN LOGAN - CIVIL WAR - 1887 FIRST EDITION - MEMOIR AND HISTORY

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LIFE OF GENERAL JOHN LOGAN - CIVIL WAR - 1887 FIRST EDITION - MEMOIR AND HISTORY:
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LIFE AND SERVICES OF GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN

AS SOLDIER AND STATESMAN

BY GEORGE FRANCIS DAWSON

Ex-Librarian of the United States Senate, etc.

FIRST EDITION

NEAR FINE - CONDITION

Handsome, Original, Sharp, Clean, Bright, Solid-Bound, Antique Book

Loaded with Engraved Illustrations Throughout

HANDSOMELY PUBLISHED AND ADORNED BY BELFORD, CLARKE, & COMPANY, CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, IN 1887
This is a scarce, First Edition biography of the extraordinary and important soldier and statesman, General John Alexander Logan. Logan served in the Mexican-American War and was a general in the Union Army during the Civil War. He served as a State Senator, Congressman, and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States in the election of 1884. A Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, he is regarded as the most important figure in the movement to recognize Memorial Day as an official holiday.

Logan fought at Bull Run as an unattached volunteer to a Michigan regiment, and then returned to Washington, resigned his congressional seat, and entered the Union army as a Colonel of the 31st Illinois Volunteers, which he organized. He is regarded as one of the most able officers to enter the army from civilian life. He served in the army of Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater and was present at the Battle of Belmont, where his horse was killed, and at Fort Donelson, where he was wounded. Soon after the victory at Donelson, he was promoted to Brigadier General. During the Siege of Corinth, Logan commanded first a brigade and then the 1st Division of the Army of Tennessee. In the spring of 1863, he was promoted to Major General.

In Grant\'s Vicksburg Campaign, Logan commanded the 3rd Division of James McPherson’s XVII Corps, which was the first to enter the city of Vicksburg in 1863, and after its capture, Logan served as its military governor. In November 1863 he succeeded General Sherman in command of the XV Corps; and after the death of McPherson he commanded the Army of Tennessee at the Battle of Atlanta until relieved by O.O. Howard. He returned to Illinois for the 1864 elections, but rejoined the army afterward and commanded his XV corps in the Carolinas Campaign.

In December 1864, Grant became impatient with George H. Thomas’s performance at Nashville and sent Logan to relieve him. Logan was stopped in Louisville when news came that Thomas had completely smashed General John Bell Hood’s Confederate army in the Battle of Nashville.

After the war, Logan resumed his political career, now as a Republican, and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1867 to 1871, and of the U.S Senate from 1871 until 1877 and again from 1879 until his death in 1886. After the war, Logan, who had always been was always a staunch partisan, was identified with the radical wing of the Republican Party. His forceful, passionate speaking, popular on the platform, was less effective in the halls of legislation. In 1868, he was one of the managers in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. He was nominated to serve as Vice President on the ticket with James Blaine, but they were not elected. He commissioned the painting of the Atlanta Cyclorama of the Battle of Atlanta.

When Logan died in 1886, his body lay in state in the U.S. Capitol. He was the author of The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History (1886), a partisan account of the Civil War, and of The Volunteer Soldier of America (1887). His likeness appears on a statue at the center of Logan Circle, Washington, D.C., and he is also honored with a statue in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois. He is one of only three people mentioned by name in the Illinois state song. The book details the complete life of Logan focusing on this military and political career.

THIS BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE - CONDITION

This wonderful, attractive, First Edition, Civil War biography remains in excellent overall condition. Handsomely bound in dark-green cloth covers with impressed, lettering and the image of Logan on the battlefield, the book is clean and solidly bound throughout. The exterior features bright, gold impressed lettering and beveled edges. The exterior is clean and remains sharp and bright, but has light edge wear to the spine tips. The interior is fine and the pages are in excellent condition; there isn’t a mark in the book. It has no writing, smudging, foxing, pasteboards, stamps or other markings, and it is not an ex-library book. The book features a frontispiece illustration of General Logan and the original tissue guard is intact and in excellent condition. The book has solid binding, but both hinges have repaired paper cracks. The book has no looseness or lean. The book is richly illustrated throughout. An excellent-condition, attractive, First Edition copy of this scarce, Civil War biography.

ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE COMMANDERS OF THE CIVIL WAR

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