small quarto, 73 manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in contemporary ¼ leather and marbled paper covered boards, binding, worn, rubbed and scuffed, entries are written in ink, in a legible hand. 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