[CIVIL WAR - PRISONS]. A group of pamphlets, histories, and survivor narratives related to Confederate prisons, comprising:

McELROY, John. Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons. Toledo, OH: D.R. Locke, 1879. Full sheep with gilt morocco spine label. -- Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers while Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities. New York: The Loyal Publication Society, 1864. Original wrappers. Featuring engraved illustrations after disturbing photographs of emaciated prisoners of war. -- ELY, Alfred. LANMAN, Charles, editor. Journal of Alfred Ely, A Prisoner of War in Richmond. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1862. -- BROWNE, Junius Henri. Four Years in Secessia: Adventures Within and Beyond the Union LInes. [Hartford, CT]: [O.D. Case and Company], [1865]. (Lacking title page and preliminaries.) One-quarter dark green morocco by W. Bent Wilson, LaFayette, IN. -- URBAN, John W. Battle Field and Prison Pen, or Through the War, and Thrice a Prisoner in Rebel Dungeons. [Philadelphia]: Hubbard Brothers; Edgewood Publishing Company, 1882. 2 copies. -- And 7 others. Together 13 works in 13 volumes, all FIRST EDITION, except as noted, 8vo, publisher's cloth except as noted, condition generally good.

Property from the Estate of Henry G. Lamont, Racine, Wisconsin