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Santa Cruz, California, 1910. 99,[3]pp. plus plates. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Spine chipped and faded. Internally clean. Very good. 99,[3]pp. plus plates. 12mo. Bates claims he served in the Ninth Ohio Cavalry, and after his capture was imprisoned by the Confederacy in seven different jails, including Macon, Danville, and Andersonville. After his escape from Andersonville in 1864, he was supposedly taken to the White House, where he met Lincoln. Bates was later awarded seven medals (an illustration is provided), one for every prison in which he was kept. "Bad fiction masquerading as fact" - Nevins. Read it and decide for yourself. NEVINS I, p.186. EBERSTADT 134:184
Billy and Dick from Andersonville prison to the white house by Bates, Ralph O. (Billy) - 1910
by Bates, Ralph O. (Billy)
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Billy and Dick from Andersonville prison to the white house
by Bates, Ralph O. (Billy)
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Santa Cruz, CA: Sentinel Pub. Co, 1910. 99p., index and extra photo, plates as called for, first edition 7.5x5.5 inch staplebound textblock under decorated grey wraps. A little edgeworn, with a snag and half-inch chip at the tail and a tiny chip at the head, a very good specimen of this fragile paperbound issue.
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- Date Published 1910
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BILLY AND DICK. FROM ANDERSONVILLE PRISON TO THE WHITE HOUSE
by Bates, Ralph O
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