Camp - Fire and Cotton - Field: Southern Adventure In Time of war. life With the Union Armies and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation.

Knox, Thomas W.

Published by Da Capo Press, New York, 1969

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9" x 6". 524pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Fine condition. Knox was a correspondent for the New York Herald, and was in the Rocky Mountain Gold Region as the war broke out. He recorded his impressions as he traveled east through Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee, and gives a fascinating account of the political situation - particularly in Missouri - in the early stage of the conflict. With good information on army movements and management of confiscated southern plantations along the Mississippi. See Dornbusch, vol. II, #2187; Eicher #635; Nevins, et al, CWB, vol. I, p. 119; Union Bookshelf #49. Seller Inventory # 16216

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Title: Camp - Fire and Cotton - Field: Southern ...

Publisher: Da Capo Press, New York

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Hardback