MEMOIR OF WIFE OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL PRYOR - 1905

Description: REMINISCENCES OF PEACE AND WAR BY MRS. ROGER A. PRYOR Wife of Confederate Congressman and General FINE - CONDITION Original, Clean, Solidly-Bound, Antique Book Contains Photographs and Maps Wonderful Account of the Civil War Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate General and Senator PUBLISHED BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, NEW YORK, IN 1905 This extraordinary memoir is her personal account, an accurate history from a highly intelligent woman who lived through and witnessed firsthand the events of the war. Her recollections tell of Washington society during the calm which preceded the storm and life in Virginia under the afflictions and sorrows of the tremendous strife of war. See describes her family’s fall from the grace of high social life during the Pierce and Buchanan administrations to abject poverty as Grant’s army surrounds them and Robert E. Lee’s nearly broken forces in Petersburg, Virginia near the turbulent days of the Civil War. In early 1861, her husband, Roger Pryor agitated for immediate secession in Virginia, but the state convention did not act. He went to Charleston in April, to urge an immediate attack on Fort Sumter. On April 12, he and his wife Sara accompanied the last Confederate party to the fort before the bombardment. Afterward, while waiting at Fort Johnson, he was offered the opportunity to fire the first shot. But he declined, saying, "I could not fire the first gun of the war." In 1861, Pryor was re-elected to his Congressional seat, but, the secession of Virginia meant he never took his seat. He served in the provisional Confederate Congress in 1861, and also in the first regular Congress (1862) under the Confederate Constitution. He entered the Confederate States Army as a Colonel of the 3rd Virginia Infantry. He was promoted to Brigadier General on April 16, 1862. His brigade fought in the Peninsula Campaign and at Second Manassas. At Antietam, he assumed command of Anderson's Division in Longstreet’s Corps. In 1863, Pryor resigned his commission and his brigade was broken up, its regiments being reassigned to other commands. In August of that year, he enlisted as a private and scout in a Virginia cavalry regiment under General Fitzhugh Lee. Pryor was captured on November 28, 1864, and confined in Fort Lafayette in New York as a suspected spy. After several months, he was released on parole by order of President Lincoln and returned to Virginia. In the early days of the war, Sara Rice Pryor accompanied her husband and worked as a nurse for the troops. In 1863 after he resigned his commission, she stayed in Petersburg and struggled to hold their family together, likely with the help of relatives. She later wrote about the war years in this extraordinary memoir. THIS BOOK IS IN FINE - CONDITION This original, antique book is in excellent condition. Handsomely bound in red, cloth covers with bright, impressed, gold lettering and the image of white doves on the cover and spine, the book is clean and has solid binding. The exterior is clean and has no bumping or discernible edge wear. The spine has some fading to the gold lettering, but the cover lettering remains bright. The interior is in fine condition. There isn't a mark in the book. The pages are clean, bright white and in excellent condition. The interior is as nice as it was when printed. The book has no writing, smudgigng, foxing, stamps, pasteboard, or other markings. It is not an ex-library book. The book contains photographs and maps. The tissue guard is in fine, clean condition. The book is solidly bound throughout. It has no looseness or lean and both hinges are original and fine. Overall this is an excellent condition, antique book with tremendous, first-hand insights of life in the Confederacy. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter

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Location: Burke, Virginia

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