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Civil War: United States Sanitary Commission Report: "Narrative of the Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers & Soldiers while Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities"

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Booklet entitled "Narrative of the Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers & Soldiers while Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities, being the Report of a Commission of Inquiry, Appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission." Boston: Published at the Office of 'Littell's Living Age,' 1864. Disbound, 5.5 x 8.5, 86 pages. The publication reprints the commission's report, preceded by four woodcut copies of photographs of starving Union soldiers after their return from imprisonment at Belle Isle. In fine condition, with adhesive remnants to spine.