Memoirs of My Own Times (3 Volume Set)

3 Volume Set, the 4th Volume (Atlas) is not included. All 3 Volumes have been rebound in blue cloth. The new bindings remain strong and square. Volume 1 is missing the title page, CR page, Dedication page and the Introduction (v - xv). The first printed page following the end-papers is Page 1, Chapter One. Pages: 855, 578 and 496 plus Appendices at the end of each volume. Fold out pages throughout with charts and facsimile letters. Volume II has pencil marginalia mostly in Chapter 5 and the Appendix., Foxing throughout all volumes. . . . . . . . . . James Wilkinson was born on March 24, 1757, in Calvert County, Maryland. When the Revolutionary War broke out in 1775 he enlisted in the Continental Army under Thompsons Pennsylvania Rifle Battalion just in time for the Siege of Boston. That winter he was commissioned a captain and became an aide-de-camp to Major General Nathanael Greene. After the Revolutionary War, in 1784, Wilkinson moved to the Kentucky territory. In 1791, Wilkinson returned to the service of the United States Army to fight in the Northwest Indian War. He was commissioned a lieutenant colonel In the 2nd US Infantry. In 1816, Wilkinson published his 3 volume memoirs (*Memoirs of My Own Times*) to try and clear his name. Historians have judged Wilkinson harshly for his treasonous work as an agent for the Spanish empire and for his involvement in numerous schemes to profit himself. Theodore Roosevelt described Wilkinson as *In all our history, there is no more despicable character.* -- American Battlefield Trust

Product Info

Publisher: Abraham Small

Year: 1816

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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