KING, John R. (John Rufus, 1842-1936)

[Confederate] My Experience In The Confederate Army And In Northern Prisons, Written From Memory

Clarksburg, W. Va. Stonewall Jackson Chapter, No. 1333, United Daughters of Confederacy, 1917. Card Covers. First Edition of this reminiscence by and infantryman who served under Robert E. Lee. Demy 8vo (227 x 143): 52pp, with frontispiece portrait of the author. Original speckled mid-brown card covers printed in black with pictorial onlay of Confederate flags. Very faint vertical crease to middle of upper cover, light spotting to several page margins, but about Fine, tightly bound and clean throughout. Nevins I, p.196 ("The short, general reminiscence of an enlisted man"). Dornbusch II, 1421. Fine-. Item #BB2391

King served in the Upshur Gray Company, or Company B, of the 25th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, under General Robert E. Lee. He fought at Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and in 1864, at the battles of Wilderness and Spotsylvania, where he was taken prisoner and sent to Point Lookout, then Elmira prisons. After the Confederacy collapsed, King was released with a two-day food ration. His Civil War ended after he walked from Grafton railhead to Buckhannon, W. Va. (about 50 miles), and on to his family farm near Hyer's Mill. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

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