Pope, A. Fred (fl. 1864-1865) [Confederate Officer prisoners of war poem and sentiment album]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02259 Author/Creator: Pope, A. Fred (fl. 1864-1865) Place Written: Camp Chase, Ohio Type: Manuscript signed Date: October 1864 - July 1865 Pagination: 109 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. Order a Copy
Inscribed on the title page by Fred Pope, Bargetown, Kentucky, and dated October 1864. Signed by over 100 Confederate prisoners of war at Prison No. 1, Camp Chase, Ohio, with rank. Includes poems, songs, quotations, and sentiments by imprisoned Confederate officers. The first entry starts, "Dear Fred: On this page, dedicated to Friendship, my name shall be written with a few attending thoughts. Let them serve a leaf in the Book of Memory, to which you may turn in after years, when perhaps the hand that now holds this pen is pulseless and the heart that breaths sentiments of tenderness for you, throbs not with the quick pulsations of life, but is cold in the voiceless inanimate form of Death." Bound in red leather with embossed title, Ledger.
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