Reminiscences of the War Between the States by W. R. Tanner, Sr. - Civil War For Sale

Tanner, W.R. - Reminiscences of the War Between The States . Cowpens, SC, 1931. 28 pages. Frontis of Tanner, Confederate gray wraps. Tanner served with Company C, 13th South Carolina Infantry. He was wounded at Five Forks and Sharpsburgand promoted to lieutenant from the ranks. Tanner writes first-hand in his colloquial misspelled style of Lee and Jackson. He was a participant in and writes of one of the most famous Lee incidents of the war: "One day during the Seven Days' Fight around Richmond, General Lee rode up right in the rear of my company. In the edge of the woods our skirmish line and the yankee skirmish and the yankee skirmish line were firing. The miney balls were flying pretty thick. Four of five of us begged General Lee to do to the rear, still he sat there on his horse. Finally we told him if he did not go to the rear we would not go forward. He turned old Traveler and rode away. He knew we were going to have a hard fight, an he was often in the most dangerous places; so was General Jackson. More than once they were requested to go back out of danger" (exerpts from the second edition). There are penciled corrections/additions on 2 pages and the writing and style are exactly the same as a copy I have that contains additional penciled additions - I believe these to be facts that only Tanner would have known.