By Lieutenant Colonel F.F. Cavada—[an officer of the 114^th PA Infy, captured at Gettysburg, July 2^nd1863] Published by King & Baird, Philadelphia: 1864. Front eps presentation, in ink: “R. D. Clarke, Paymaster U.S.A./ Presented by Wm. M. Cameron, 1^st Vermont Vos., serving with Battery A, 2d U.S. Arty, himself for some time, a prisoner in the Libby.” Front eps , owner book stamp: R. A. Weaver. 221 pp., ills. In brown buckram,7.5 x 5.5, with gilt spine lettering. Exhibits light wear at the extremities, rubbing at head and foot. Else VG and handsome, with tight spine and page signatures. Plus, this memoir is among the best POW account of Libby Prison—[“The best source for the human interest side of Libby during its period of heaviest use”—[Nevins & Wiley].

A soldier listed William W. Cameron enlisted on 8/30/64 as  Private; on 9/2/64 he mustered into Co. D, 1^st Vermont Cavalry. Listed as  POW on 10/7/64 at Columbia Furnace, VA. He died as a POW on 2/4/65 at Richmond. No other William Camerons who served in Vermont units come as close to matching the information the inscription.

R.D. Clarke may be Robert Dunlap Clarke who enlisted on 8/12/63 as a Major. On that date he was commissioned into US Volunteers Paymaster’s Dept. Promoted to Major on 8/12/63 (Major & Additional Paymaster), and to Lt. Colonel by Brevet on 3/13/65. Discharged on 3/20/67. Subsequent service in US Army, 1867-1882. Born in Pennsylvania, Clarke died on 4/7/1891 and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Uniontown, Fayette County, PA.

Solid collectible. Excellent addition to any Civil War library.  [jp/ld]

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