U.S. Sanitary Commission, No. 80: Letters from the Army of the Potomac, Written During the Month of May, 1864, to Several of the Supply Correspondents of the U. S. Sanitary Commission
Washington: McGill & WItherow, Printers and Stereotypers, 1864. First edition. Stitched signatures. Octavo. 68 pages, + [2] page Appendix.
A group of eight vividly descriptive letters from the battlefield and from Washington during the Civil War. Bloor was an architect and a gifted writer, and travelled with the Army of the Potomac in Virginia as Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Sanitary Commission.
Very good. Lower fore corner of first few leaves creased and a bit rumpled, some light foxing, else fine.
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