A group of 2 Confederate memoirs, including: 

1. Johnson Hagood. Memoirs of the War of Secession. Columbia, South Carolina: The State Company, 1910. 

8vo. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Original green cloth. FIRST EDITION. Nevins I: 98. 

Hagood (1829 - 1898) was a South Carolina planter who was active in the South Carolina militia and became a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army. He fought at the Battle of Fort Sumter, Second Bull Run (Manassas), and the Overland Campaign. After the defeat of the 54th Massachusetts at the Battle of Fort Wagner, he infamously robbed and stripped the body of their commander, Robert Gould Shaw, reportedly saying, "Had he been in command of white troops, I should have given him an honorable burial; as it is, I shall bury him in the common trench with the n-----s that fell with him." (Foote, 2003, p. 119). 

After the war, he resumed farming and became involved in "reclamation" politics in opposition to the Radical Republicans. In 1880, thanks to the impression of Black voters, Hagood was elected Governor of South Carolina.

2. Varina D. Brown. A Colonel at Gettysburg and Spotsylvania. Columbia, South Carolina: The State Company, 1931. 

8vo. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Original blue cloth with original blue dust jacket. Original blue dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Nevins I: 65.

A military biography of Colonel Joseph N. Brown, who enlisted as Captain of Company E (the "Enoree Mosquitoes") of the 14th South Carolina Infantry.

The regiment saw heavy action in 1862, fighting during the Battles of Gaines' Mill, where Brown was wounded; Second Manassas (Bull Run); Sharpsburg (Antietam); Shepherdstown; and Fredericksburg. 

Brown was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 20 February, 1863, before the Battle of Chancellorsville. While at the Battle of Gettysburg, Brown commanded the regiment, losing 209 men of the 408 engaged, mostly on the first day in the last attack on Seminary Ridge. After the battle, he was promoted again to colonel.

1864 continued to be bloody. The regiment lost 86 men at the Battles of the Wilderness and 72 at the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania Court House. Brown was captured at the Battle of North Anna, but had rejoined the regiment by 1865. 

Nevins praises that "the author made abundant use of letters, newspapers, addresses, and printed source." 

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