BAILEY, GEORGE W.

A private chapter of the war (1861-5). By Geo. W. Bailey, late First Lieut, 6th Mo. Infty., and A. D. C. 2d Div. Staff; 15th Army Corps.

St. Louis: G. I. Jones and Company, 1880. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 271; frontispiece portrait, 3 plates; original dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine and decorative gilt-stamped front cover; worn and stained with spine ends chipped away, the gilt dulled on spine, a good, sturdy utilitarian copy. Bailey (b. 1841) here offers a record of his "uncommon experiences" of the Civil War, observations of the Confederacy he culled as a fugitive escaped prisoner of war. Item #26830

Price: $85.00