PICKETT AND HIS MEN BY LASALLE CORBELL PICKETT, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

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Second edition published in 1900. First page is signed, “TO DOCTOR J. GEORGE BECK WITH THE KINDEST REGARDS & BEST WISHES OF THE AUTHOR: LaSALLE CORBELL PICKETT”. Book features two lithographs of George Pickett. Text contains 439 pages. Measures 6” x 8 ½” x 1 ¾”. Light gray cover has the title in gold gilt lettering. Light surface dirt and smudges are present on cover and corners are slightly bent. Pages have yellowed with age. Front cover is loose at spine but pages are still tightly bound with none missing.

LaSalle Corbell Pickett (1843-1931) was a prolific author and lecturer, and the third wife of George E. Pickett (1825–1875), a career United States Army officer who became a major general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. He is best remembered for his participation in the futile and bloody Confederate offensive on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name, Pickett's Charge. After her husband's death in 1875, “Sallie” traveled the country to promote a highly romanticized version of his life and military career that was sometimes at odds with the historical record. George Pickett emerged from the war with a strained relationship with Robert E. Lee—whom he partly blamed for the destruction of his division at Gettysburg (1863)—and accused of war crimes. But in his wife's history, Pickett and His Men (1899), he was "gallant and graceful as a knight of chivalry riding to a tournament." This is a rare opportunity to own a copy with Sallie’s inscription.  [sm]

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