A VISION OF WAR
C.P. Farrell: NY, 1899. Paperback. Very Good. Item #21-7025
Illustrated in color lithographs by H.A. Ogden, 11 x 10", stiff pict wraps with ribbon ties, unpaginated. Covers heavily soiled and spotted with creasing and edge tears, contents have light soiling and wear else good to very good condition. Colonel Ingersoll, who was in the 11th Illinois Cavalry during the Civil War, writes of the war: soldiers leaving their families, marching, in battle, their deaths and all beautifully illustrated. "The past rises before us, and we see four million of human beings governed by the lash- we see them bound hand and foot- we ehar the strokes of cruel whips- we see the hounds tracking women through the tangled swamps. We see babes sold from the breasts of mothers! Outrage infinite!...Instead of slaves we see men and women and children. The wand of progress touches the auction block, the slave-pen, the whipping-post..."
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