CLAIBORNE, John Herbert.

Seventy-Five Years in Old Virginia.

Item #51118

CLAIBORNE, John Herbert. Seventy-Five Years in Old Virginia. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1904. 1st ed. 360 pp. Portrait frontis. Orig. cloth. A near fine copy. "Although Dr. Claiborne was not an extraordinarily prominent man, his memoir is among the best, if not at the very top, of the Virginia books published by Neale which are not exclusively military. The doctor was born in Brunswick County, Virginia, and attended school there and in Leasburg, North Carolina. He also went to Randoph-Macon and the University of Virginia. Claiborne's recollections of Petersburg in the 1850's are the sort of record of which local historians dream. They are intimate and detailed enough to virtually comprise a street directory. Claiborne was a member of the Virginia legislature before the war and was elected to the Viriginia Secession Convention. His war experience was as surgeon of the 12th Virginia Infantry and as director of a military hospital in Petersburg. Some excellent material on field medical services, supply shortages, and Confederate surgical efforts is recorded from this period ... A chapter on the retreat to Appomattox contains much which is of interest." Krick 80.

Price: $250.00