NARRATIVE OF PRIVATIONS AND SUFFERINGS OF UNITED STATES OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS WHILE PRISONERS OF WAR IN THE HANS OF THE REBEL AUTHORITIES
Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1864. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Item #7512
Octavo. 283 pp., plan. First edition. In original printed wrappers; lacking the 4 plates, though in-text plan of Andersonville is present. Minor chipping to the wrappers with a bit more loss to head and tail of the spine; an early tideline along the bottom of the rear wrapper and the two of the final blanks; still, a fairly solid copy of a book infrequently found thus. This copy with contemporary ownership inscription over the title to Wm. Y. McAllister from Jno A. McAllister on the front wrapper; additional ownership name of Wm.[?] Joyner at the top of the front wrapper. "A highly partisan work that exaggerates the horrors of Richmond prisons and the comforts of Northern ones" CWB I, 204.
Price: $75.00