HEARTSILL's 1491 DAYS in CONFEDERATE ARMY/CIVIL WAR with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT

HEARTSILL's 1491 DAYS in CONFEDERATE ARMY/CIVIL WAR with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
HEARTSILL's 1491 DAYS in CONFEDERATE ARMY/CIVIL WAR with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
HEARTSILL's 1491 DAYS in CONFEDERATE ARMY/CIVIL WAR with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
HEARTSILL's 1491 DAYS in CONFEDERATE ARMY/CIVIL WAR with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
HEARTSILL's 1491 DAYS in CONFEDERATE ARMY/CIVIL WAR with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
HEARTSILL's 1491 DAYS in CONFEDERATE ARMY/CIVIL WAR with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
HEARTSILL's 1491 DAYS in CONFEDERATE ARMY/CIVIL WAR with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
HEARTSILL's 1491 DAYS in CONFEDERATE ARMY/CIVIL WAR with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
HEARTSILL's 1491 DAYS in CONFEDERATE ARMY/CIVIL WAR with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
HEARTSILL's 1491 DAYS in CONFEDERATE ARMY/CIVIL WAR with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT

HEARTSILL's 1491 DAYS in CONFEDERATE ARMY/CIVIL WAR with ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT

FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE DAYS IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY -Manuscript Edition. Wilmington: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1988. 336 pages, 8 1/2 x 11. Copy #114 of 156 copies printed, and 150 copies offered for sale by the publisher. Probably the most unique book in Confederate history.

This day-by-day account of a Texas private was originally hand-printed by its author from his war diary with photos of his old company pasted in. Laid into each volume is a sheet from the original manuscript, both sides written entirely in Heartsill's hand. Bound by hand using select goatskin imported from England and fine Italian bookcloth. Extra illustrated with an oversized tipped-in photograph of Captain Sam Richardson in his leapard-skin britches, plus three Civil War maps by Heartsill never before published. This is a gem among Confederate narratives.

- The Civil War in Books. According to HARWELL: IN TALL COTTON 86: This book would be of considerable interest because of the homespun way in which it was produced even if it were devoid of any other virtues. After some time in Richmond he was attached to Braggs army in time to participate in the Battle of Chickamauga. Then slowly back to Texas through Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

For a time he guarded Federal prisoners in Camp Ford at Tyler, Texas. He and his comrades in the W. Lane Rangers were finally disbanded near Navasota May 20, 1865.

HEARTSILL AND FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND 91 DAYS. Heartsill's 1876 prophecy that he would never print a second edition of FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND 91 DAYS was true, not only for himself but for everyone else, until 1953 when McCowat-Mercer Press issued a facsimile reprint edited and introduced by Bell I. If it seems strange that the volume which earned Wright-Howes' accolade as "one of the rarest journals by a Confederate combatant" should in spite of rarity, demand, and price remain unregenerated for almost one hundred years, one should remember that reprinting didn't come of age until the fifties and the West and the Civil War didn't catch fire until the sixties. In 1980, the Jenkins Company published a monograph by its proprietor John entitled THE MOST REMARKABLE TEXAS BOOK. This essay on 1491 DAYS was limited to sixty-four copies, each of which contained a leaf taken from an incomplete volume of the original edition. Both Wiley's introduction to the McCowat-Mercer edition and Jenkins' essay are here reprinted. Though they overlap to some extent, they each merit publication in full.

Wiley and Jenkins both note, and so shall I, that the original edition of FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND 91 DAYS was printed one page at a time. It (1491 DAYS) was printed page-at-a-time on an Octavo Novelty Press, and each time, the machinery was brought to a full stop for re-inking with a hand roller. The type had to be distributed after each press run in order to set the next page. In short, after printing a page, Heartsill would dump the letters, sort them one by one into the alphabet and then set the text for the next page, one letter at time.

We have few facts concerning Heartsill's physique but we do know, needing no proof beyond his book, that he was possessed of a steady hand, a fine set of eyes and the patience of Job. Heartsill is just out and out the damnedest job of printing since Gutenberg did the Bible. Imagine one individual cutting, sorting and pasting into its proper place, one by one, six thousand one hundred photographs; collating one hundred sets of two hundred sixty-five pages, gathering the whole together and sewing it into a book, affixing boards and labels -- all accomplished in the heat and cold of 1876 Texas. Regretfully, the original and 1953 editions are almost illegible due to small type.

However, Heartsill's remarkable printing feat probably wouldn't have occurred had he enlarged the type to legibility, thus doubling the page count. In resetting the type we mean no disparagement of Heartsill but offer a sugar tit to modern eyes and type convention... Contents include: Bell Irvin Wiley: Introduction; John H. Jenkins: The Most Remarkable Texas Book; Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days In The Confederate.

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