Reminiscences of Peace and War
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiv, [4], 3-402, [1] (page of publisher's advertisements), [1] pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering and a white decoration on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece and five plates. Nevins (II) 199. Oxford ANB, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry, " Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice (19 February 1830–15 February 1912)". Sara Pryor was an author and the wife of a Confederate officer. At first she traveled with her husband Roger, but she was then sent back to Petersburg with her two young children and pregnant with another. Pryor was an early perpetuator of the falsehood that the U.S. Civil War was not about slavery, and romanticized the antebellum United States. Once the war ended, her husband was released from prison and they moved to New York to start anew. She would go on to found the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution after the Civil War. Her memoir provides historical perspectives on the experiences of wealthy white women who lived in the South during the U.S. Civil War. Near Fine. Item #000012282
A small push to the top textblock, overall a lovely copy.
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