Lot 201
  • 201

American Civil War.

Estimate
500 - 600 GBP
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Description

Manuscript of an account of ''Richmond and Washington during the War''. A detailed, impressionistic and critical historical or journalistic account, including various references to ''Ethiops'', ''ebonies'' and ''Hebrews'', written in black ink in a single hand on unbound sheets of blue and white paper, with deletions and revisions, numbered at the top ''(485)'', with pencil marks and names (possibly printer's cast-off marks), 29 numbered pages, folio 4to and oblong 8vo, thumb-marks and minor stains and fraying, in blue cloth folder with silk ties [late nineteenth century]