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[CIVIL WAR]. [CRIBBEN, Henry (1834-1911), subject]. The Military Memoirs of Captain Henry Cribben of the 140th New York Volunteers. Edited by J. Clayton Youker. [New York]: Privately Printed, [1911]. 8vo. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece. [xii], [1]-154 pp. Bound in publisher’s full dark brown morocco over thin boards, front board lettered in gilt, spine with dark brown gilt morocco lettering label, all edges gilt, textured cream endleaves (rebacked preserving the original spine, binding worn, scuffed, endleaves with some soiling, wear to endleaves, text with occasional creases, frontispiece and facing tissue guard and title-page foxed). Very good. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS BIOGRAPHY OF CRIBBEN. Cribben was an iron worker who volunteered for military service in 1862, eventually rising to the rank of captain. He fought in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. He was captured and became a prisoner of war, enduring the deprivation and suffering of life in various Confederate prisons; he would later escape near the end of the war.