Description

 
TITLE   

Observations of an Illinois Boy in Battle, Camp and Prisons -- 1861 to 1865

AUTHOR   

Henry H. Eby
PUBLISHER
 AND
COPYRIGHT 		  

Published by the Author, 1910  This is the first edition, and not a later reprint
 


SIZE and ATTRIBUTES

  

Hardcover measuring 5-1/2" x 8" , 284 pages. With photographs and illustrations.
 

CONDITION

  

Good plus.  Clean and unmarked. Good binding. 
 
COMMENTS


 

  

SCARCE antique Civil War memoir  - from a soldier in the 7th Illinois Cavalry.

 Henry Eby of Mendota, La Salle County, Illinois spent most of his enlisted time during the Civil War in the 7th Illinois Cavalry.

 He participated in battles including Stones River and Chickamauga. Then he was confined to Belle Island Prison in Virginia, later transferred to Libby Prison, and then Smith Prison. Later, he was again transferred to Danville, Virginia, where he contracted smallpox. He tells how he was captured and what prison life was like.
 

He escaped in January 1864 only to be recaptured 35 miles from the Union lines and sent back to Belle Island. In March 1864, as a part of a prisoner exchange, he and 400 Union soldiers were released.

 

The book also includes reminiscences of George W. Westgate, also the the 7th Illinois Cavalry, and a letter from Calvin W. Hudson to the author about his escape, recapture and escape of a second time.

 

All Dancing Eye Books are packed with care to help assure their safe arrival.

 

Thank you for looking.