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MORGAN, James Morris Recollections of a Rebel Reefer. ltd ed.
Houghton Mifflin, 1917,
MORGAN, James Morris. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First Edition. Pp 491, [15] leaves plates. 8vo, grey cloth, leather label to spine, t.e.g. One of a Limited Edition of 200 copies. Myron Smith, American Civil War Navies: A Bibliography 1700. The action-packed memoirs of a Louisiana-born midshipman in the Confederate Navy during the U.S Civil War, from early training at Annapolis to his service in the Gulf and Mississippi, his experience as a blockade runner and commerce raider in the Atlantic, his post-war commission in the Egyptian Army, a visit to Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, his appointment as Consul General to Australia.... A remarkable American life with intimate accounts of the events and personalities of the Civil War and with several "affairs of honor" thrown in for good measure. Includes accounts of two visits to Halifax, once in late 1862 in company with Matthew Maury, and once in the summer of 1864 when the author committed a faux pas with no less a personage than Cyrus W. Field. Chipping to edges of frontis., very slight nicking to spine label, cloth rubbed and slightly soiled, owners' signatures, else vg. 465.00
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