[Rarebooks] fs: 1890 - Isham. U.S. Civil War P.O.W.s

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(No. 8783 )  Isham, Asa B.; Henry M. Davidson; and Henry B. Furness. 
PRISONERS OF WAR AND MILITARY PRISONS: PERSONAL NARRATIVES OF EXPERIENCE IN 
THE PRISONS AT RICHMOND, DANVILLE, MACON, ANDERSONVILLE, SAVANNAH, MILLEN, 
CHARLESTON, AND COLUMBIA
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Cincinnati: Lyman & Cushing, 1890. First printing, Full cloth, Octavo, xii, 
571 pages, Black & white engraved plates, cuts. Very Good.
      Subtitle continues: "
 A General Account of Prison Life and Prisons in 
the South during the War of the Rebellion, including Statistical Information 
Pertaining to Prisoners of War; together with a List of Officers who were 
Prisoners of War from January 1, 1864." Includes experiences of both Union 
and Confederate prisoners, though the list of officers is Union only. 
DORNBUSCH, vol. III, p. 43; NEVINS, ET AL, vol. I, p. 194. Profusely 
illustrated with cuts and full page engravings. Bound in dark green cloth 
over boards with gilt-stamped spine and gilt-stamped illustrations on both 
boards, decorated endpapers. Top fore corners of both boards bumped, prior 
owner bookplate on both pastedowns, mild silverfishing along fore edges of 
both boards. Hinges sound, interior text clean and bright.    $175.00
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