Strong's Pictorial and Biographical Record of the Great Rebellion.
Containing Sketches of Departed Heroes, Prominent Personages of the Past, Facts, Incidents and Stories Connected With That Important Epoch of the History of America. Illustrated With 265 Portraits. ca 1866.
Scarce Civil War book. Worldcat indicates that this book is held by only 13 libraries and there is only this one edition, probably published in 1866. This large folio antiquarian volume is: STRONG'S PICTORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF THE GREAT REBELLION Containing Sketches of Departed Heroes, Prominent Personages of the Past, Facts, Incidents and Stories Connected with that Important Epoch of the History of America. Compiled and Edited by Julian K. Larke Illustrated with 265 portraits (woodcuts). 10 1/2" by 13 1/2" hardcovers, half leather. 288 pages including index. With the added bonus of large, antique ads throughout, most printed on pink and blue paper. Of course, a large number of the portraits and biographies are of military figures (both union and confederate) but you will also find political figures, clergymen, authors, performers, attorneys and others. Some of the portraits are full-page. Others appear surrounded by the text of their biography. Interspersed with the portraits and biographies are war-related articles, anecdotes, news items, poetry, etc., etc. Following is just one example of the many, many brief items of this type: "A slaveholder in Dorchester County, Maryland recently said to his slaves that they had his permission to volunteer in the army, but requested them, when they had made up their minds to go, to inform him, and as they had driven him many a time to Cambridge, he would himself drive them in his carriage thither on this important mission. Sure enough, they heeded his request and he drove them to town in his carriage on their way to Baltimore, after fitting them out quite liberally. He went again, shortly after, to Camp Birney, to get his certificates for the three hundred dollars substitute money for each slave, and to grant his obligation to free them when the State laws would allow him to do so. They met him as affectionately and demonstratively as sons would meet a father." Some of the additional writings are titled as follows: Hotel Life in the South During the Rebellion - The Heroine of Gettysburg - Anecdote of Gen. Leslie Coombs of Kentucky - Living in a Fort - General Hardee Supercedes General Bragg - Thanksgiving Day at Chattanooga - The Escape of Rebel General Morgan - Confession of a Rebel Officer - Female Heroism - The Youngest Soldier in the Army of the Cumberland - How the Prisoners Escaped from the Richmond Jail - Casting of the 20-inch Rodman Gun at Fort Pitt Foundry, Pittsburg - A Female Volunteer - General Sanford and the Battle of Bull Run - hundreds more. Following are some examples of those for whom portraits and biographies are included: Major-General George B. McClellan; Major-General Ambrose E. Burnside; Major-General Ulysses S. Grant; Vice Admiral David G. Farragut; Captain Raphael Semmes; Major-General George G. Meade; Governor of New York Horatio Seymour; Rebel Commissioner to Paris John Slidell; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Anna E. Dickenson lecturer and speaker; Edwin Forrest American tragedian; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher; William Cullen Bryant; James T. Brady, Esq.; Ex Maryland Governor Thomas Holiday Hicks; singer Clara Louise Kellogg; Brigadier-General George E. Custer; Mrs. Jefferson Davis; Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; many more.
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