ROBERT H. KELLOGG LIFE AND DEATH IN REBEL PRISONERS 1865 HARDCOVER BOOK

'LIFE and DEATH in REBEL PRISONS:'

[1st Edition, 1865, illustrated hardcover volume by Robert H. Kellogg, published in Hartford, CT by L. Stebbins

Giving a complete

History of the inhuman and barbarous treatment

Of our brave soldiers by rebel authorities,

Inflicting terrible suffering and frightful

 Mortality, principally at

ANDERSONVILLE, GA., & FLORENCE, S. C.,

Describing plans of escape, the arrival of prisoners, with numerous and varied incidents and anecdotes of prison life.'

by ROBERT H. KELLOGG,

Sergeant-Major 16th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers.

prepared from his daily journal to which is added as full sketches of other prisons as can be given without repetition of the above, by parties who have been confined therein. We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen. "

Illustrated. - sold by agents only.

H A R T F O R D, C O N N.

L. STEBBINS

1865.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
L. STEBBINS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the District of Connecticut.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:
Midnight Storm-Our Miserable Lodgings,.......1
Stockade at Andersonville,........57
Blood Hounds Capturing Prisoners,........62
Mode of Dealing Out Rations,.......111
Hanging Union Prisoners,.......174
Break in the Stockade,........211
Plan of Hospital, Andersonville,.......257
Interior View of Hospital,........265
Plan of Stockade at Florence,........318
Hanging by the Thumbs,.........333
View of Libby Prison,.........361
DIMENSIONS: 
 5 1⁄4" Width x 7 1⁄2" Height 
 
DESCRIPTION: 
 This well-known piece of US Civil War literature is a true original, authentic 1st edition hardcover, gold gilt embossed, cloth volume titled 'Life and Death In Rebel Prisons,' by Robert H. Kellogg and published in 1865, by L. Stebbins in Hartford, Connecticut after the conclusion of the US Civil War and the North's victory over the southern, pro-slavery Confederacy. The volume is really much closer to excellent overall antique condition than just very good condition. Only the top of the cloth spine is slightly faded and has some minor gold gilt loss and is somewhat weakened along the top margin. The spine is however unbroken and opens and closes easily. There's some slight scuffing on the front cover, some minor spotting and tanning on the interior pages, preventing us from classifying the volume as being in excellent or fine overall antique condition. Very Good would be an honest appraisal of its overall antique condition. Also of note, would be the cursive pencil writing and profuse annotations and personal references found on the affixed inside cover paper surfaces and inset pages, made by a previous owner of the volume, referencing family members who served in the conflagration and who were affected by the events of the war, which rocked the nation in the mid-19th century and affected many families throughout both the North and the South. With profuse full page illustrations, maps and diagrams of forts, Confederate prisons and fortified stockades, the sheer, terrifying level of brutality and inhumanity suffered by captured Union troops at the hands of the Confederacy, while they were interned in their southern prisons, is on full display and told in great, horrific, painstaking detail through images and text. The profuse, nearly full page illustrations are many and wonderful, with only some minor episodes of foxing and tanning on its interior paper pages. A wonderful antique US Civil War volume. Terrific.
CONDITION:
Very Good to Excellent overall antique condition. 
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[То thе
Widows, children, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters,
Of the thousands of brave men
Who have left their homes in the morning of life ;
Sundered family and social ties ;
Abandoned cherished enterprises and business schemes,
For the purpose of
Maintaining the laws of freedom inviolate,
And in the faithful performance of their duty,
Have been captured by the enemy,
And gone down
To untimely graves through unparalleled sufferings,
Is this volume most respectfully
Dedicated.
They sleep in secret, -but their sod
Unknown to man, is mark'd by God !]
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