Murray j ohn ogden maj (1 risultati)

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.…