LIFE AND DEATH IN REBEL PRISONS: Giving a Complete History of the Inhuman and Barbarous Treatment of our Brave Soldiers by Rebel Authorities, Inflicting Terrible Suffering and Frightful Mortality, Principally at Andersonville, Ga., and Florence, S.C., describing plans of escape, arrival, of prisoners, with numerous and varied incidents and anecdotes of prison life
by Kellogg, Robert H
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About This Item
Hartford, Conn: L. Stebbins, 1865. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No jacket as issued. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. 12mo., 395pp., illustrated with b&w frontispiece and plates. Bound in original publisher's brown cloth, with title on spine in gilt. Boards and spine ornately decorated in gilt floral pattern. Gilt somewhat faded. Tips lightly rubber. End papers beginning to fox. Text generally clean and bright, with the occasional light blemish. Remnant of a sticker on the front end paper. An attractive, Very Good copy. *** Nevins CWB: 195, "A sergeant's journal of captivity, reworked by the editor; very bitter over deliberate cruelty to prisoners, but also gives facts tending to show the opposite". ***.
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- Frey Fine Books (US)
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- Title
- LIFE AND DEATH IN REBEL PRISONS: Giving a Complete History of the Inhuman and Barbarous Treatment of our Brave Soldiers by Rebel Authorities, Inflicting Terrible Suffering and Frightful Mortality, Principally at Andersonville, Ga., and Florence, S.C., describing plans of escape, arrival, of prisoners, with numerous and varied incidents and anecdotes of prison life
- Author
- Kellogg, Robert H
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- L. Stebbins
- Place of Publication
- Hartford, Conn
- Date Published
- 1865
- Keywords
- War between the states, Civil War, southern, history, Virginia, Georgia, captivity, war, crimes, escape, andersonville, union, confederate, Nevins
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