ROBERT H. KELLOGG

LIFE AND DEATH IN REBEL PRISONS [Includes Certificate Leaf & Civil War Letter]

Hartford Conn: L. Stebbins, 1865. First Edition. Very Good. Item #001597C

A very good and tight copy. First Edition. Illustrated frontispiece and 10 illustrations. Includes the "Certificates" leaf in the front [not found in all copies] and publishers ads in the rear. Some mild wear and scuffing to binding. The A.C. Hill copy, with their bookplate on the fp. Together with: Autograph Letter Signed ("From your sister Dud") to "Dear Brother" relating the celebrations at Home" on the news of General Lee's surrender and the end of the Civil War, April 10th 1865. The War ended April 9th. Four folded 8vo pages on lined white paper. "HURRAH! THREE CHEERS FOR GRANT, SHERIDAN AND THE WHOLE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. BUT STILL MORE GLORIOUS NEWS. LEE SURRENDERED HIS WHOLE FORCES TO GEN. GRANT IS NOT THAT GRAND. GUNS HAVE BEEN FIRING IN ALL DIRECTIONS ALL DAY AND THE WAY THE OLD BELL AND ANVIL HAVE KEPT IT UP HAS NOT BEEN SLOW." Letter written to her brother, a soldier for the Union Forces.

Price: $500.00