Reply of Lieut.-Col. Pilsen to Emil Schalk’s Criticisms of the Campaign in the Mountain Department under Maj.-Gen. J.C. Fremont
New York: 1863.
14 pp, in original printed wrappers. One tear extending 3/4 in. from the spine (affecting inner margins, but no text), else a very good copy. A defense of Fremont’s 1862-63 campaign against Stonewall Jackson in Virginia. Schalk was critical of Fremont’s actions in his book Summary of the Art of War. Pilsen, who served as Fremont’s Chief of Artillery, accuses Schalk of numerous factual errors and “plain villany” in his attack on “a man who has spent his life in the civil and military service of the country, and who, besides the skill and energy he displayed in the West, in this particular campaign brought a striking example of what true zeal and ingenuity can perform.” Sabin 62870.
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