LIBBY LIFE: EXPERIENCES OF A PRISONER OF WAR IN RICHMOND, VA, 1863-64.

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Item Code: 804-216

By Lieut.-Colonel F.F. Cavada, U.S.V.  Published by King & Baird, Philadelphia, 1864. 221 pp., ills. Brown blind-stamped buckram, 7.75 x 5.25”, w/ gilt spine lettering. Very light rubbing at the corners, else VG plus, highly attractive.  Colonel Cavada was a Union colonel captured at Gettysburg—Nevins & Wiley: “The best source for the interest side of Libby during its period of heaviest use.” Fine prison memoir.  [jp]

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