LAWRENCE & Glover. Camp Ford C.S.A.

620.     [CIVIL WAR]. LAWRENCE, F. Lee & Robert W. Glover. Camp Ford C.S.A. The Story of Union Prisoners in Texas. Austin: Texas Civil War Centennial Advisory Committee, [1964]; [Colophon leaf at end] 550 copies of this book have been printed at El Paso, Texas by Carl Hertzog. [i-viii] ix-xi [1], 1-99 [1] pp., 6 leaves of plates (with 9 images), text illustrations (photographs and vintage prints; 3 illustrations by José Cisneros, including frontispiece and map). 8vo (23.7 x 16 cm), original navy blue buckram over grey cloth, upper cover with gilt illustration of stacked arms (from Nott’s Sketches in Prison Camps), spine lettered in gilt, endpaper maps. Fine copy, withpublication promotional laid in.

     First edition, limited to 500 copies. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Cisneros 103). Lowman, Hertzog 177. Lowman, Texas Illustrators 220. The publishers state in the promotional:

Five years of research have gone into the preparation of the first complete history of Camp Ford at Tyler, Texas, largest Confederate prison camp in the Trans-Mississippi Department. The authors have assembled the pieces of published sources and newly found Camp Ford data from all over the United States and compiled them into the story of this little known but important phase of Texas Confederate activity.

     Apparently the authors were not aware of Dungan’s account of his imprisonment at Camp Ford (see Item 121 in Part 1 of this auction). However, included in Lawrence’s book is a photograph of “Men of the 19th Iowa at New Orleans after eighteen months at Camp Ford.”