The Annals of the War: Written by the Leading Participants North and South

Alexander K. McClure

Times Pub. Co., Philadelphia, 1879

[Early Maryland Ownership] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover.  ii, 800 pages : illustrations. From the library of George W. Purnell.  Lieutenant George Washington Purnell (CSA) served in the Co. M, 23rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment and Co. B, 2nd Maryland Cavalry Battalion.  Purnell had an estate in Snow Hill, MD.     

A collection of the first hand accounts of the Civil War that were printed in the Philadelphia Weekly Times. "A valuable collection of subjective articles written by such leading wartime commanders as Beauregard, J.E. Johnston, Longstreet, and Pleasonton" Nevins I, 22. Dornbusch III, 377