folio, 29 pages, text written in both ink and pencil, in two different, but legible hands, paper somewhat tanned, else very good. Docketed on fragment of blank, final page: “Copy of Testimony in case of Gray Taken by the Reporters E. C.… more >
New York: Printed by R. Spear, [1825], octavo, 36 pages, ex-library, handstamps on title page, text slightly dampstained and wrinkled, bound in 19th century dark blue roan backed thin boards, binding worn, covers detached, else good. 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