At the outbreak of the war he was elected colonel of the 12th South Carolina and was commissioned a brigadier general in early 1862. Born in North Carolina in 1828, he entered the University of North Carolina at age fifteen, eventually studied law, and settled in Charleston, South Carolina to practice. James Johnston Pettigrew is best known for his service in the Confederate army, where he eventually reached the rank of brigadier general. Item #WRCAM47593 From an edition limited to 300 copies, printed "for private circulation." This is a rare, substantial, and interesting Confederate imprint, describing Pettigrew's travels in Spain and his impressions of the land and its people two years before the outbreak of the American Civil War, one of the very few travel narratives published in the Confederacy. Withal, still a very good copy in original binding. Author's name supplied in ink on titlepage, with two dates written in ink below the imprint. Early discreet library stamps (properly deaccessioned), remnants of library pocket on rear pastedown. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt morocco label. Charleston: Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861.
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