Prison-Life in the Tobacco Warehouse at Richmond. By a Ball's Bluff prisoner

  • Philadelphai: George W. Childs, 1862
By William C. Harris
Philadelphai: George W. Childs, 1862. Very Good-. Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); publisher's dark brown blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 175pp.; frontispiece (tissue guard). General wear to extremities, discreet repair to spine ends, spine gilt rather dulled, front hinge starting, later (1907) pencil ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else a Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound copy.

Early expose of Liggon's Tobacco Warehouse Prison by prisoner-of-war William C. Harris (1830-1905), who was confined there for seven months before being released on parole and concluding the war with Col. Baker's California Regiment. Final four leaves of text provide a chart of the inmates, including their rank, regiment, where captured, and some brief remarks.

SABIN 30531.

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