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[CIVIL WAR]. KELLOGG, Robert H. (1844-1922). Life and Death in Rebel Prisons… Hartford: L. Stebbins, 1865. 8vo. Illustrated with frontispiece and 10 illustrations (some of which are intertextual). With the “Certificates” leaf in the front (not found in all copies) and publisher’s ads in the rear. Publisher’s full brown cloth, boards and spine decoratively stamped in gilt (spine sunned, some mild wear, scuffing to binding, endleaves toned and foxed, text foxed, occasionally soiled and shaken (a few leaves loose and some gutters over opened). FIRST EDITION. The A. C. Hill copy, with their bookplate on the fp. Kellogg was a Sergeant Major with the Connecticut Volunteers and had been taken prisoner with most of his regiment in early May of 1864. For the next several months (he was released in January, 1865) he experienced the horrors of Andersonville and some other Confederate prisons. After his release, he feverishly sent manuscript pages to his publisher to inform the world of the horrible conditions he and fellow Union prisoners were forced to endure. [Together with:] Autograph Letter Signed (“From your sister Dud”) to “Dear Brother” relating the celebrations at “Home” on the news of General Lee’s surrender and the end of the Civil War, Apr. 10th 1865. 4 8vo pages on 1 4to leaf (each page 202 x 126 mm; entire leaf 202 x 252 mm). On lined white paper. “Hurrah! Three cheers for Grant Sheridan and the whole army of the Potomac. But still more Glorious news. Lee surrendered his whole forces to Gen. Grant is not that grand. Guns have been firing in all directions all day and the way the old bell and anvil have kept it up has not been slow.” Apparently, a young woman has written this letter to her brother, a soldier for the Union forces.