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One Year's Soldiering, Embracing the Battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh and the Capture of Two Hundred Officers and Men of the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry, and their Confinement Six Months and a Half in Rebel Prisons
by Kiner, F. F
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair+/None
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Easton, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Lancaster: E H Thomas, Printer, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Scarce first edition of this Civil War history. Light brown cloth boards, blindstamped covers with gilt titling on sunned spine, 18mo. Corners bent in, with upper corners rubbed. Owner's name and date penned on ffep, and penciled again on second fep. Ffep toned from a NY newspaper article, (dated Jan 2, 1937), laid in containing a poem, 'The Captains, 1861-1865,' written or contributed by A. C. Nielsen, (the radio engineer?). Periodic foxing throughout. Pages unmarked except for light pencil notation, one word on pg 21 and a number on pg 32, correcting the text according to the publisher's errata on the page after 219. BOOK INFO: Covering the battles and enlistment of the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry, of which Kiner was Chaplain, this book was first published while the war was still on. It details the soldiers' capture and detention, elucidating conditions at Camp Oglethorpe in Macon, GA, and their treatment by their Rebel captors. '..I think my fellow countrymen cannot be disinterested in the great cost of human suffering by which our liberties are now maintained...I have felt it to be my duty...to lay before the public the treatment and sufferings of our two thousand Union soldiers while in Rebel hands as prisoners of war.'-from the Introduction.
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- Quadrant Book Mart
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- 7813
- Title
- One Year's Soldiering, Embracing the Battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh and the Capture of Two Hundred Officers and Men of the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry, and their Confinement Six Months and a Half in Rebel Prisons
- Author
- Kiner, F. F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair+/None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E H Thomas, Printer
- Place of Publication
- Lancaster
- Date Published
- 1863
- Pages
- 219
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