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[CIVIL WAR]. Andersonville prisoner narratives & other first-hand accounts. 19 works in 21 volumes.
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[CIVIL WAR]. Andersonville prisoner narratives & other first-hand accounts. 19 works in 21 volumes.

TYLER, Comrade Wm. N. The Dispatch Carrier and Memoirs of Andersonville Prison. Port Byron, IL: Port Byron Print Globe, 1892. Second Edition. -- MAILE, John L. Prison Life in Andersonville. Los Angeles, CA: Grafton Publishing Co., 1912. 2 copies, one with "Correction Number" typed label on cover, with possible signature of author on FFEP, and notes regarding inserting a quotation on page opposite title page and "Second Edition" on title page. Second copy numbered 376 (out of 500 copies), signed by the author. -- BATES, Ralph O. Billy and Dick from Andersonville Prison to the White House. Santa Cruz, CA: Sentinel Pub. Co., 1910. 3 copies. -- HOSMER, Francis J. A Glimpse of Andersonville and Other Writings. Springfield, MA: Loring & Axtell, 1896. -- LONG, Lessel. Twelve Months in Andersonville. Huntington, IN: Thad and Mark Butler, 1886. -- MCELROY, John. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons. Vols. I and II. Washington, DC: National Tribune, 1879 (significant wear to covers). -- MCELROY, John. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications Inc., 1962. -- GRIGSBY, Melvin. The Smoked Yank. Sioux Falls: Dakota Bell Publishing Co., 1888. -- COMPTON, James R. Andersonville. The Story of Man's Inhumanity to Man. Des Moines: Iowa Printing Co., 1887. -- MCELROY, John. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons. Toledo, OH: D.R. Locke, 1879. 2 copies. -- GOSS, Warren Lee. The Soldier's Story of his captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and other Rebel Prisons. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1876. -- MCELROY, John. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons. Vols. I and II. Washington, DC: National Tribune, 1879. Bound in 1/2 cloth and marbled paper with gilt lettering on spine and original wraps bound in; in special made slip case; handsome set for this fragile edition. 

[With:] SCOTT, Harold, editor. The Civil War Memoirs of Little Red Cap, A Drummer Boy at Andersonville Prison. Cumberland, MD, 1997. Signed by author. -- WATSON, Ronald, editor. From Ashby to Andersonville: Civil War Diary and Reminiscences of Private George A. Hitchcock, 21st Massachusetts Infantry. Campbell, CA: Savas Publishing Co., 1997. -- MCELROY, John. This was Andersonville. New York: McDowell, Obolensky Inc., 1957. 

Together, approximately 19 works in 21 volumes, all ca 19th- 20th century, most in original bindings, condition generally good.
Property from the Estate of Amelia and Aubrey Abramson, Sunnyvale, California
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