1866 Confederate 1ed Jefferson Davis Prison Life Civil War Slavery President CSA

1866 Confederate 1^ed Jefferson Davis Prison Life Civil War Slavery President CSA

“A sympathetic account of Davis’s confinement at Fortress Monroe; by the physician assigned to attend him; includes several long conversations.” (Nevins)

A rare first edition of the “Prison Life of Jefferson Davis” by John Joseph Craven. According to Sabin, this first edition was printed on both small and large paper and includes a “Political Letter written to a Citizen of Illinois.” This work also ‘helped cement Davis’s image as a Lost Cause martyr.” (Boritt, Holzer). It was

“written by the physician in attendance during the imprisonment in Fortress Monroe…A kind of diary of the daily life, giving the gist of conversations. Written by a Union man, but sympathetic and forgiving. Unlikely to please the rabid element of either side.” (Larned, Lit. of Am. History).

Includes full-page woodcut engraving of Davis in prison.

Item number: #30431

Price: $499

CRAVEN, John Joseph

Prison life of Jefferson Davis : embracing details and incidents in his captivity, particulars concerning his health and habits, together with many conversations on topics of great public interest

New York: Carleton; London: Samson Low, 1866. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • x, 11-377, 8
  • Illustrated frontispiece
• References: Nevins I 189; Sabin 17429; Larned 2159
• Provenance: Handwritten
  • D. Eggleston
    • Likely Joseph Eggleston, father of Joseph Dupuy Eggleston II (see below).
  • John Bodkin
  • D. E. Jr.
    • Likely Joseph Dupuy Eggleston II (1867–1953), an American educator, the seventh president of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (now Virginia Tech), and the 14th president of Hampden-Sydney College. Eggleston also served as a public school teacher and administrator and as the chief of the Division of Rural Education for the United States Bureau of Education.
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
    • Navy blue cloth
  • Size: ~7.5in X 5.25in (19cm x 13.5cm)

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