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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 540

Civil War. Fremantle, Sir Arthur James Lyon: Three Months in the Southern States April, June 1863. Mobile, Alabama; S.H. Goetzel, 1864. Small octavo, later ¾ leather with brown cloth board and blue endpapers, 158pp. A Lieutenant-Colonel in the Coldstream Guards, and the most prominent foreign observer of the Confederacy and notable observer at the Battle of Gettysburg, Fremantle sheds considerable light not only on the military and political life of the CSA, but also on the minutiae of everyday life in the Civil War South. While stationed in Gibraltar, Fremantle met the captain of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Sumter and was inspired by tales of blockade running and combat on the high seas. Having a great interest in the American civil war, Fremantle took a leave of absence to tour the South. The diary of his sojourn was quite frank as he never intended to publish it, but upon his return to England, there was so much interest that Fremantle was compelled to put it in print. Contemporary name penned on first page of narrative with date "Aug. 22/64". Light foxing and ink shadowing front and back page. Very Good, Rare Mobile edition.

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