“GETTYSBURG MADE PLAIN” By Abner Doubleday – SOLD

Description

GETTYSBURG MADE PLAIN, A Succinct Account Of The Campaign And Battles, With The Aid Of One Diagram And Twenty-Nine Maps, By Abner Doubleday Brevet Major General, U.S.A.  New York: The Century Co. 1888.  Soft wraps (illustrated), 59 pages,

“The contents of the book, are summed up accurately by reading the Preface:  “Every intelligent American desires to learn the principle features of the campaign and battle of Gettysburg, but the complicated movements of the troops are hard to understand, and readers who have not had the advantage of a military education become weary and discouraged in the attempt to master them.   In this little treatise the whole matter is elucidated in general terms by explaining  the strategic reasons for the different changes of position, leaving out the minor details which are so perplexing.  Thus treated the knowledge may be easily acquired, and will prove valuable as an introduction to the larger works on the same subject.  The maps in this volume are compilations by the author, from the official reports of the commanders on both sides, and from the  maps of Colonel John B. Bachelder, which were purchased by Congress for the War Department.”

The book has an advertisement for W.H. Tipton, Gettysburg Battlefield photographer, and the Eagle Hotel (Proprietor- H. Yingling).

Condition is very good, Cover just a bit loose from main book, and some age toning to paper mostly on covers