GDG- If I could only keep one!

[Tom Gilbert]

I was thinking the same thing, would hate to part with my 3-volume Gettysburg OR set .. guess Coddington would have to be next choice .. speaking of OR, although I use the OR CD and the online OR very often, there is something special about handling the actual books .. I have "wished" for a set for about 40 years now, no luck yet .. could get the reprinted set for $3000 but there would be a shooting at sunrise, if not before .. I was really glad to get the Gettysburg set, I may get other sets like that if and when I need them (I recently noticed a Vicksburg set for sale) .. one of my favorite CW memories was in 1980, I was in New Orleans and I wandered into one of those musty little book shops they have down there, and I found a beat-up single OR volume for sale ($3) .. I didn't care what volume it was, to me it was like finding gold  (it turned out to be XXV, part II, which turned out to be helpful when studying Gettysburg campaign preliminaries - also it covered the
 Jones-Imboden Raid of 1863 which got me very interested in WV and the CW - I start teaching that subject next week!) .. that single volume still has the place of highest honor in my little library, and I placed the shiny new 3-volume Gettysburg set right next to it .. Tom Gilbert

Tom Ryan <pennmardel at mchsi.com> wrote:  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


<follow-on: You must divest yourself of 74 of your books (or 96 of
97). Which one do you keep, and why?>>

Dave, no question it would be OR, vol. 27 (3 books). It I have to choose
among those three, it would be Volume 3 (Union and Confederate
correspondence). Can't function without it.

Regards, Tom


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