James, Frederic Augustus, ed. by Jefferson J. Hammer

Frederic Augustus James's Civil War Diary: Sumter to Andersonville

Place_Pub: Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. 1973. 153, illus., footnotes, appendix, index, lower corner front board bent, DJ soiled and creased: small tears. Frederic Augustus James of Boston was a member of the Union Navy. Captured during an ill-ventured night attack against Fort Sumter on 8 September 1863, James spent the next twelve months in no less than five Confederate prisons. He died of disease and malnutrition at Andersonville Prison on 15 September 1864. Condition: good, fair to good.

Keywords: Civil War, Diaries, POW, Fort Sumter, Andersonville, Confederacy, Prisone of War, U.S.S. Housatonic, Richard Tinker

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