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CIVIL WAR BOOKS
Catalog #6

GENERAL



PEN AND POWDER
By Franc B. Wilkie,Boston,1888.
A newspaper correspondent,Wilkie traveled
with the Federal forces from Wilson's Creek
through Vicksburg;his various sketches are
penetrating and personal observations on a wide
variety of military subjects. CWB

383 pages.    

    $39.00    



MILITARY REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR
By Jacob D. Cox,  N.Y. 1900.
2 volumes,  549+596 pages,  Portraits,Maps.
This detailed account,by an Ohio general and
veteran of many campaigns,gives a broader
picture than the usual description of battle. CWB


    $95.00    



SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS IN OLD VIRGINIA
By John H. Claiborne,  New York,Neale Publishing,1904.
360 pages,Portraits.
Revealing reminiscences of life
in wartime Petersburg and important
for comments on the retreat to Appomattox.


    $39.00    



THE NORTH'S LAST BOYS IN BLUE:
LAST LIVING CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
By J.S. Hoar.  56+22p.  2006.  illust.
$70.00    

BLOCKADE RUNNING DURING THE CIVIL WAR
AND THE EFFECT OF LAND AND WATER TRANSPORTATION
ON THE CONFEDERACY.

By Francis Bradlee.  Salem,Mass. 1925.
340 pages. Illustrated.    $37.50    
"The title is misleading because almost half of the volume
is devoted to an anecdotal treatment of Confederate
railroad,postal,telegraph and express service." CWB



THE BOYS IN WHITE; THE EXPERIENCE OF A HOSPITAL AGENT
IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON.

By Julia Wheelock.  New York,1870.
274 pages,Portraits.    $35.00    
"One of the better,straightforward accounts of life in Federal hospitals;
Miss Wheelock was stationed through out the last three years of the war
at Alexandria Virginia." CWB



THE COLOR GUARD: BEING A CORPORAL'S NOTES OF
MILITARY SERVICE IN THE NINETEENTH ARMY CORPS

By James K. Hosmer.  Boston, 1864.
244 Pages.    $35.00    
Union Bookshelf
"An excellent and even-tempered memoir
of army life in Louisiana." CWB



ECHOES OF THE CIVIL WAR AS I HEAR THEM.
By Michael H. Fitch.  New York, 1905.
368 Pages.  Portraits.  Maps.    $39.00    
Union Bookshelf
"An exceptionally good memoir of the Western
campaigns by a Wisconsin officer." CWB



THE GRAY JACKETS: AND HOW THEY LIVED,FOUGHT AND DIED FOR DIXIE
By a Confederate. (James McCabe)  Richmond, VA  1867.
574 pages.    $49.00    



HOW IT WAS: FOUR YEARS AMONG THE REBELS
By Mrs Irby Morgan  Nashville, TN  1892.
204 pages  Portraits    $35.00    
The well told experiences of a refugee in
Tennessee and Georgia  CWB



HISTORY OF THE OLD SECOND DIVISION
ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND.

By William Sumner Dodge.  Chicago,1864.
582+51 pages.  Portraits,  Folding Maps.    $65.00    
"A pleasant combination of statistical and personal data on service
in the West;one of the few divisional histories in existance." CWB



LETTERS OF A WAR CORRESPONDENT
By Charles Page.  Boston,1899.
392 pages,  Maps.    $39.00    
"Page was chief reporter in the field for Greely's New York Tribune,
and his vivid commentaries on the Eastern campaigns beginning with
Gaines's Mill explain why." CWB.



LOSS OF THE SULTANA AND
REMINISCENCES OF SURVIVORS.

By Rev. Chester Berry.  Lansing,MI. 1892.
426 pages. Illustrated.    $42.50    
"A useful collection of recollections treating somewhat of prison
conditions and mainly with this steamboat explosion." CWB



PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF SHERMAN'S CAMPAIGNS
IN GEORGIA AND THE CAROLINAS.

By Capt. George W. Pepper.  Zanesville,Ohio. 1866.
522 pages.    $55.00    
Union Bookshelf
"The highly revealing and reliable recollections of a journalist
who served simultaneously as an officer in the 80th Ohio
and a newspaper field correspondent." CWB



RECOLLECTIONS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
By Mason W. Tyler.  New York, 1912.
379 Pages.   Portraits.  Maps.    $37.50    
Union Bookshelf
"A valuable personal account of the war in Virginia by an officer
of the 37th Massachusetts;includes letters,diary excerpts,
and a long narrative by the editor." CWB



REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE AMERICAN
CIVIL WAR 1861-1865.

By William F. Fox.  Albany,New York, 1893.
595 Pages.    $49.00    
"A statistical analysis of Union casualties together
with histories of Union units." CWB



SUFFERINGS ENDURED FOR A FREE GOVERNMENT OR A HISTORY
OF THE CRUELTIES AND ATROCITIES OF THE REBELLION.

By Thomas Wilson.  Philadelphia, 1865.
300 Pages.  Illustrated.    $35.00    
"A Southern Unionist's compilation of atrocity stories,
many involving military and political prisoners." CWB



THREE YEARS IN FIELD HOSPITALS
OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.

By Mrs. W.H. Holstein.  Philadelphia, 1867.
131 Pages.    $29.00    
"Perceptive reminiscences of a woman who saw
the decidedly unglamorous side of the war
with the Army of the Potomac." CWB



MANUAL



THE ARTILLERIST'S MANUAL,COMPILED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES
AND ADAPTED TO THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES.

By John Gibbon.  New York, 1893.
478 Pages.  Profusely illustrated.    $55.00    



CAVALRY DRILL AND SABRE EXERCISE
By George Patten.  New York, 1861.
159 Pages.    $29.00    



NAVY



HAND BOOK OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY:
BEING A COMPILATION OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL
EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF EVERY VESSEL
OF THE UNITED STATES FROM APRIL 1861 TO MAY 1864

By B.S.Osbon.  New York,1864.
277 pages.    $39.00    
"A dictionary of material about the navy to1864;contains interesting
descriptions of technical books in use dring the Civil War." CWB



RECOLLECTIONS OF A SAILOR BOY, OR THE
CRUISE OF THE GUNBOAT LOUISIANA.

By Stephen F. Blanding.  Providence, RI., 1886.
330 Pages.    $35.00    
"Excellent material on the enlistment and subsequent
daily life as a sailor on a blockading vessel." CWB



PRISONS



ANDERSONVILLE DIARY,ESCAPE,AND LIST OF THE DEAD
WITH NAME,COMPANY,REGIMENT,DATE OF DEATH
AND NUMBER OF GRAVE IN CEMETERY.

By John L. Ransom.  Auburn,New York, 1881.
304 Pages.    $35.00    
"A superior,gripping account; the author admits making several
changes in the original edition;Ransom has a strong
interest in securing pensions for prisoners." CWB



THE ELMIRA PRISON CAMP: A HISTORY OF THE MILITARY PRISON
AT ELMIRA,NEW YORK, JULY 6,1864 TO JULY 10,1865;
WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE LISTS OF CONFEDERATE
SOLDIERS BURIED IN WOODLAWN NATIONAL CEMETERY.

By Clay W.Holmes.  New York, 1912.
465+190 Pages, illustrated.

$69.50    
This edition contains a newly revised and corrected list of the
dead at Woodlawn arranged by grave number and by regiment



PRISON LIFE IN THE SOUTH
AT RICHMOND,MACON,SAVANNAH,CHARLESTON
COLUMBIA,CHARLOTTE,RALEIGH,
GOLDSBOROUGH AND ANDERSONVILLE.

By A.O. Abbott.  New York, 1865.
374 pages. Illustrated.    $42.50    
"Based on a manuscript written while in prison;
anti-Southern but generally factual." CWB



RICHMOND PRISONS 1861-1862,
COMPILED FROM THE ORIGINAL RECORDS
KEPT BY THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT,JOURNALS
KEPT BY UNION PRISONERS OF WAR, TOGETHER WITH
THE NAME, RANK, COMPANY, REGIMENT AND STATE OF
THE FOUR THOUSAND WHO WERE CONFINED THERE.

By William H. Jeffrey.   St. Johnsbury, Vermont, 1893.
271 pages,   illustrated.    $35.00    



THE SOUTHERN SIDE; OR, ANDERSONVILLE PRISON.
By R. Randolph Stevenson, M.D.    Baltimore, Maryland, 1876.
488 pages,  illustrated.  Folding Plan.    $47.50    








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