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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover. No lettering on spine. 6" x 8 3/4." Ninety-four pages, complete. Several black-and-white plates, complete. Pages are clean and intact except for a former owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper, former owner's stamp on front pastedown, small occasional smudges or stains, slightly bumped corners, and light age toning. Covers are clean and intact overall except for light rubbing, slight loosening to binding, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This book contains a multifaceted report about the Pennsylvania Monument at Andersonville, Georgia that was built in 1905. The monument honors the 1,849 Pennsylvania Union prisoners-of-war (POWs) who died at Andersonville Prison (Camp Sumter) during the American Civil War. The monument is a granite domed arcade that features a solemn bronze figure at the top who represents a POW. The monument also features a bronze relief sculpture on a plaque that shows POWs gathering fresh water from Providence Spring, a spring that had arisen from the parched earth, as if by an act of divine providence, and provided some respite for the POWs. Miller and Clark Granite and Monumental Works of Americus, Georgia had won the commission to design and build the monument (the company also collaborated with artists for specific parts of the monument). Each section within this book is relatively brief, but a variety of information is included. Any original historical materials quoted herein appear as printed text. The following are some of the contents: historical account and correspondence relating to the planning and commissioning of the monument; notable people in charge of the monument's planning and design; exercises observed at Andersonville, Georgia on December 7, 1905; speeches of noted military officers associated with the project such as Colonel James D. Walker, Harry White, Captain William H. Bricker, and Thomas J. Stewart; "Historical Incidents in Connection with Imprisonment of Union Soldiers at Andersonville, Georgia" (including an account by one of the members of an expedition sent to survey Andersonville Prison in July 1865 and accounts about the people who intervened to preserve Andersonville Prison and its cemetery where thousands of POWs were buried); "Roster of Applications Received at Adjutant General's Office, Harrisburg, PA., for Transportation to Andersonville, Georgia, Under Provision of Act of Assembly, Approved May 11, 1905"; and "Evidences of Causes of Mortality." Andersonville Prison was established in February 1864 by the Confederate government as a POW camp. Over the 14-month span of Andersonville Prison's existence, about 45,000 Union prisoners-of-war were held captive there and about 13,000 of them died. In the infamous summer of 1864, it is estimated that 100 Union POWs died every day from disease, exposure, or malnutrition. The camp was beset by overcrowding, inadequate shelter, and a lack of sanitation, potable water, food, and medical supplies. Andersonville Prison was shut down by the Union after the Confederacy's defeat in April 1865.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Book is rebound in buckram over boards. Binding and hinges sound, pages clean but age-darkened. Illustrated with black and white plates. Contents include proceedings of the monument dedication ceremonies, sources from Union and Confederate records, roster of surviving Pennsylvania prisoners of war who attended the Salisbury ceremony. The Confederate prisoner of war camp at Salisbury, N.C., housed over 15,000 Union prisoners throughout the Civil War with about 5,000 dying and being buried at the site. Ex-Library; 8.5" tall; 71 pages. …

Cloth. Condition: Good VG, or Better. No Dustjacket Issued. Later Printing of 1905. In memory of the 1849 soldiers of Pennsylvania who perished in the Confederate Prison at Andersonville, Georgia. 93pp, photo illustrated, tables. Clean, unmarked interior. Tight, square binding. Only slight wear to the blue cloth at the tips of the corners. Solid and sound. Weight, 455g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First Printing. 94, [4] pages. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Publication date derived from the verso. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some weakness noted at the boards. This report of the Commission details the initiative, the deliberations, the sponsorship of the memorial, and the Dedication ceremonies. It is noted that "Arriving here it was found that 424 survivors of the Andersonville prison had preceded them. In addition to these, there were fully two hundred Pennsylvania soldiers who bad not been at Andersonville, but some of them bad been inmates of other rebel prisons. There were also several hundred civilians of the Keystone State, some of them young men, the sons of veterans of the Civil War, and sons of the Andersonville victims. Fully one hundred women, the wives and daughters of veterans, who had accompanied them from Pennsylvania, were also present. Every section of the State was represented. There was quite an outpouring of Georgians, special trains having brought them from Macon, Fort Valley and Americus, while many came from the country around in carriages. The states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Nebraska were also represented by tourists on their way to Florida, who bad lingered a day in Americus and Macon to participate in the day's event. The total number present was estimated at between 4,000 and 5,000. This includes portions of the Report of an Expedition to Andersonville, Georgia, July, 1865, for the purpose of identifying the graves and enclosing the grounds of a cemetery created there during the occupation of that place as a prison for Union Soldiers in Rebel hands. In the year 1898, at a meeting of the National Association Union Ex-Prisoners of War, held at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Lisbeth Turner, of Massachusetts and Chairman of the Andersonville Prison Board of the Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic, appeared before the National Association and stated that she had been instructed to notify the National Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War, that the Woman Relief Corps were the owners of all of the ground within the original Stockade of the Confederate Prison Pen , at Andersonville, Georgia, they having purchased it from the Department of Georgia Grand Army of the Republic, and that it was their intention to enclose it with a suitable fence, erect ornamental gates at the Old North and South entrances, a lodge for the use of a caretaker, improve and beautify the grounds, erect a granite building over that Providential appearing stream of cold water that in 18G4, broke through the trampled and hard baked ground, within the prison bounds, known as "Providence Spring," and place therein a beautiful marble and granite fountain, and requested the cooperation of the National Association Union Ex-Prisoners of War. The National Association cheerfully acquiesced, and agreed to assume the cost and responsibility of erecting the fountain. James Atwell, National Commander, Col. James D. Walker, Chairman, Executive Committee, Stephen M. Long and William McKelvy, were appointed a committee by the National Association, to secure the necessary funds and erect the fountain. Under their supervision and direction, the Work was contracted for, erected and dedicated. After the dedication ceremonies were concluded, and while the Committee were strolling through the National Cemetery, they noticed a small monument. Upon examination it proved to have been erected by the State of New Jersey, to the memory of her soldiers, who died in the Confederate Prison Pen at Andersonville, and are interred in the National Cemetery. Then and there it was resolved by the Pennsylvania members of the Committee, that the memory of the 1,849 .soldiers of Pennsylvania that perished in the Andersonville Stockade and were buried in the National Cemetery should be honored by the erection of a monument, or memorial, by their native State. The success of their resolution is attested by the presence in the National Cemetery, at Andersonville, Georgia, of the chaste and beautiful memorial erected by the State of Pennsylvania.…