A very scarce and finely preserved Confederate issue of the life and death of Randolph Fairfax. He became the ideal Southern Martyr of the Confederacy and his memoir was one of the very few to be issued concurrently with the Civil War itself. Even the later 1878 imprint now rarely seen on the market.
Not at auction since 1956.
Slaughter, Philip. Second Edition. A Sketch of the Life of Randolph Fairfax, A Private in the Ranks of the Rockbridge Artillery, Attached to the "Stonewall Brigade: and Subsequently to the 1st Regt. Va. Light Artillery, 2d Corps, Army of Northern Virginia; Including a Brief Account of Jackson's Celebrated Valley Campaign, by Rev. Philip Slaughter. Editor of the "Army and Navy Messenger." Richmond. Tyler, Allegre & McDaniel, Enquirer Job Office. 1864. 48pp.
A good + copy, bound in wraps, generally solid, with generally bright pages. Minor ex library stamp as shown.
