FOUR YEARS IN SECESSIA: Adventures Within and Beyond Union Lines.

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BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 450 pgs, Frontispiece, illustrated, bound in publisher's purple pebble grained cloth stamped in blind, spine lettering gilt, brown coated endpapers. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Spine faded. Covers rubbed and chipped spine ends. Interior is clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The author was a correspondent for the New York Tribune. He writes about his own capture at Vicksburg while running the Rebel Batteries, his imprisonment at Vicksburg, Jackson, Atlanta, Richmond and Salisbury, his escape and perilous journey of four hundred miles to the Union Lines at Knoxville; information concerning the conditions of the Southern prisons and the Northern soldier confined in them. REFERENCE: Nevins I, 187:"A N.Y. Tribune correspondent's bitter story of imprisonment and escape, 1863-65; adds little to parallel account of Richardson (The Secret Service) and is repent with poetic exaggeration.". N° de ref. del artículo 0623039

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