American Bastile. A History of the Illegal Arrests and Imprisonment of American Citizens in the Northern and Border States ... During the Late Civil War

John A. Marshall

T.W. Hartley & Co., Philadelphia, 1883

[Early Maryland Ownership] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Some foxing. 858 pages frontispiece, plates, portraits, map 23 cm.  From the library of George W. Purnell.  Lieutenant George Washington Purnell (CSA) served in the Co. M, 23rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment and Co. B, 2nd Maryland Cavalry Battalion.  Purnell had an estate in Snow Hill, MD.  Signed by James P. Smith.