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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 574

Prisons and Civil War. A pair of books: McElroy, John: Andersonville-A Story of Rebel Military Prisons…A Private Soldier's Experience. 8vo, modern blue ¾ cloth with marbled board covers, illustrated, 655pp. The teenage McElroy was a private in the 16th Illinois when he was captured in a skirmish in 1864, he spent the rest of the war in Confederate prisons; this is the story of his 15 months of incarceration. A few soiling spots, otherwise Fine, Urban, John W.: Battlefield and Prison Pen or Through the War, and Thrice a Prisoner. Philadelphia; Hubbard Bros., 1882. 12mo, pictorial covers, 422pp. Very Good. [2]

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