The Journals of Josiah Gorgas is more than a well-edited version of Gorgas's diaries and journals; Wiggins has interpreted them in full Gorgas family context and in perspective of the times they cover. . . . Wiggins informs with the sort of editorial notes expected of a careful scholar, but she enlightens with wide knowledge of American and southern history.
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The Journals of Josiah Gorgas is more than a well-edited version of Gorgas's diaries and journals; Wiggins has interpreted them in full Gorgas family context and in perspective of the times they cover. . . . Wiggins informs with the sort of editorial notes expected of a careful scholar, but she enlightens with wide knowledge of American and southern history.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7æ-9æ" tall. Hardcover in publisher's dust-jacket. 305 pages. Includes Biographical Directory; Bibliography; and Index. Edited by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins. Foreword by Frank E. Vandiver. History Book Club issue. Eighteen journals from the antebellum period to reconstruction by the highly regarded Chief of Confederate Ordnance. Gorgas journals are more comprehensive than Mary Boykin Chesnut's Diaries and provide a far greater window into Southern economic, political and filial life. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and like new copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.
