Folio, includes 44 manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in full leather, hinges cracked, worn, scuffed, rubbed, corners of boards worn through, written in ink in a very legible hand, dated 1786 to 1810, with gaps. more >
Dramatic eyewitness account of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn’s early morning surprise attack on Holly Springs, Mississippi, the resulting capture by the narrator, a cotton buyer from Rhode Island, and the destruction at the Union supply hub