Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War (Collector's Library of the Civil War) - Hardcover

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

Full leather. Reprint of 1866 edition. 368, [6] p. Collector's Library of the Civil War. Audience: General/trade. navigation, search George Alfred Townsend, ca. 1899 George Alfred Townsend (January 30, 1841 April 15, 1914), was a noted war correspondent during the American Civil War, and a later novelist. Townsend wrote under the pen name "Gath", which was derived by adding an "H" to his initials, and inspired by the biblical passage II Samuel 1: 20, "Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askalon." He originally wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and in 1861 he moved to the New York Herald. He is considered to have been the youngest correspondent of the war. In 1865, Townsend was Washington correspondent for the New York World, covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and its aftermath. Very good. No dust jacket. Decorative cover and endpapers. Gilt edges. Series flyer and bookplate laid in. Artikel-Nr. 71865

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