True Story of Andersonville Prison: A Defense of Major Henry Wirz
by PAGE, James Madison
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PAGE, James Madison. The True Story of Andersonville Prison: A Defense of Major Henry Wirz. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1908. 1st ed. 248pp. Portrait frontis., portraits. Orig. cloth, T.e.g. Minor speckling to cloth, some shelfwear to foot of cloth, faint scattered foxing, else very good. "This book is an important prison narrative, written by a Federal, defending a Confederate. Page was captured in September 1863 along the Rapidan and was sent to Belle Isle, thence to Andersonville. His account of the conditions he encountered is of interest, but of more moment is his defense of Henry Wirz" Krick 366. Nevins I, p. 199.
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- True Story of Andersonville Prison: A Defense of Major Henry Wirz
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- PAGE, James Madison
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- 1
- Keywords
- NEALE IMP, PRISONERS, PRISONS, FINE/CW
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