Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 2,210
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Kate Cumming. A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. 199, [1] pages plus final blank. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minor wear; minor foxing; faint 1868 gift inscription on front free endpaper, 1872 high school library bookplate on front pastedown. Louisville, KY, [1866]
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First edition. One of the few works on Confederate hospital life, and one of the few by a Confederate woman on the front lines. "A fine personal narrative, realistic in its depiction of Confederate hospital conditions"--Nevins, page II:186. Howes C949; Streeter sale, II:1290.