Author: Wheelock, Julia S[usan. 1833 - 1900]
Title: The BOYS In WHITE; the Experience of A Hospital Agent In and Around Washington
Description: New York: Printed by Lange & Hillman, Steam Book and Job Printers, 1870. 1st edition (Neviins I, p. 91). Original publisher's green cloth binding, with gilt stamped title lettering to spine & gilt stamped camp scene to front board. Bevelled board edges. Brown coated eps. vii, [3], [9] - 274, [2 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece. Inserted plate p. 58. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Square & tight. Light shelfwear. Edge ding to 3 leaves (pp. 49 - 54), no text affected. A VG+ copy. Per Nevins, "One of the better, straightforward accounts of life in Federal hospitals; Miss Wheelock was stationed through the last three years of the war at Alexandria, Va.".

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