Author: URBAN, JOHN W.
Title: My Experiences Mid Shot and Shell and in Rebel Den
Description: Lancaster, PA, self published. 1882, First Edition. Red Cloth. Book, 633 pages, numerous illustrations. Wear on spine and corners, gutters reinforced with Japanese tissue paper, old name on front endpaper. According to the list of illustrations lacks 3 plates but has 3 extra plates not mentioned in the list. 'A Graphic Recital of Personal Experiences Throughout the Entire Civil War in which the author was actually engaged in 25 Battles and Skirmishes, was three times captured and incarcerated in Andersonville, Libby, Millen and other Southern Prisons. A vivid and truthful description of the life of a Union volunteer in all its different phases, on the battlefield, in the prison den, at the picket line, and in the camp and bivouac. In fact a recital of possibly as varied and thrilling events as were known during all the wild vicissitudes of that terrible four years of internecine strife.'. Good.

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