Swiggett Captain (5 results)

cloth. Condition: Good. 1st Ed 254pp, frontis, plates, cloth nice Dornbusch Iowa-245 Coulter #440 Service with the 36th Iowa captured in Arkansas and imprisoned at Camp Ford in Texas, relates of two escapes and recaptures, interesting and scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition. original maroon cloth with lettering stamped in gilt. Swigget was in the 36th Iowa Infantry. He was captured in Arkansas by troops under Kirby Smith and spent the next 14 months in Confederate prisons. Swiggett's life while imprisoned at Camp Ford near Tyler Texas. Contains a comprehensive listing of casualties among the officers and enlisted men of the Thirty-sixth Iowa Infantry at Marks' Mills, Arkansas, April 25, 1864. Very little information available about Camp Ford. Anecdotes of of life on the run during two different escapes. See Dornbush Volume I, Iowa 245. A scarce book on CW prisons. Corners are bumped and there is rubbing and wear to the top and bottom of the spines.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Original red cloth boards with gilt lettering front panel and spine, worn on points with some discoloration to spine cloth. Title page torn near gutter. Hinges repaired and rear pastedown had large tear that has been repaired. Captain Samuel A. Swiggett (1834-1904) served with the 36th Iowa Infantry; he describes his capture, prison life and escapes from Camp Ford in Tyler, Texas. Illustrated with photographs. ; MCN27680; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 254 pp.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 7.5in. 254pp. Publisher's cloth boards with gilt titling. NEAR FINE. Shows a very small mark at the spine, corners shelf rubbed, otherwise Fine having been exceptionally well maintained. As pictured.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued. Swiggett (illustrator). 1st Edition. 0. SWIGGETT, S[amuel] A. The Bright Side of Prison Life: Experiences, in Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Sojourner in Rebeldom. Baltimore: Press of Fleet, McGinley & Co., [1897]. 1st ed. 254pp. Portrait frontis., portraits. Original gilt brick cloth, with portrait of the Captain. some light spots on cover, slight rubbed to edges else pretty, a very good. copy Dornbusch I, IA-245. This memoir by a member of the 36th Iowa Infantry gives one of the few eyewitness accounts of Camp Ford in Tyler, Texas. By the Owner.