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Octavo, softbound (slick white full color illus. wrappers), pp. Fine. From loer cover: There is no apology to be made for the publication of this history of the six hundred Confederate prisoners of war confined on Morris Island by order of the Federal government. It is put in print for two reasons: First, to preserve the record of this gallant band; second, to give to the world a true history of the wanton cruelty inflicted upon helpless prisoners of war, without the least shadow of excuse. The treatment meted to the prisoners is a blot upon the escutcheon of the United States that can never be blotted out nor removed. It was cowardly, it was inhuman, and cruel. The names of the men responsible for this cruelty must be written -- and they will be written -- upon history's blacklists of cruel men. Civil War, Prisoner of War, POW, War between the States, War of Rebellion, American Civil War, U. S. Civil War, United States History, U. S. History, U.S.-iana, Americana, American History. yslic.

Second edition, considerably enlarged. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper: "For Miss Mary M.C. Logan [sp?] / with the kindest wishes of the author, and highest respect and regards," signed, datemarked Charles Town, WV, September 1918. Octavo; original gray cloth gilt, 355pp; frontispiece and 39 inserted leaves of photographic portraits (halftones). Hinges slightly loose (not broken); just mild overall external soil, but with a conspicuous stain to rear board; complete and sound, Good or better. Uncommon signed. First published in Winchester, Virginia, 1905; this second edition adds some 70 pages of new material. First hand account by a survivor of the imprisonment of Confederate officers at Morris Island, South Carolina, and later at Fort Pulaski and Hilton Head Island from 1863-1865. Murray (1840-1921), a Major in the Confederate 6th Cavalry, spares no invective in describing his mistreatment by Union troops, which he presents as a refutation of "slanders against the South and her people.which are used for political purposes, by the corrupt politicians who live politically on sectional hate." NEVINS I:198. DORNBUSCH II,1226. SUVAK (Memoirs of American Prisons) 522. Signed.