[Rarebooks] fs: Knox. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field, 1st, 1865

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 8784 )  Knox, Thomas W[allace]. (1835-1896). CAMP-FIRE AND 
COTTON-FIELD: SOUTHERN ADVENTURE IN TIME OF WAR. LIFE WITH THE UNION ARMIES, 
AND RESIDENCE ON A LOUISIANA PLANTATION.
New York: Blelock and Company, 1865. First Edition, Leather, Octavo, 524 
pages, Engraved plates. Near fine.
      Knox was a correspondent for the New York Herald, and was in the Rocky 
Mountain Gold Region as the war broke out. He recorded his impressions as he 
traveled east through Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee, and gives a 
fascinating account of the political situation--particularly in Missouri--in 
this early stage of the conflict. Contains good information on army 
movements and management of confiscated southern plantations along the 
Mississippi. DORNBUSCH, vol. II, #2187; EICHER #635; NEVINS ET AL, CWB, vol. 
I, p. 119; UNION BOOKSHELF #49. Bound in leather over boards with gilt on 
black spine label. The book has been repaired, with new leather spine and 
joints, original leather spine and label laid back down, new endpapers. Rubs 
to extremities....... $250.00
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