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[WAR OF 1812] American Privateer's Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment

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[Amos Babcock] and [Benjamin Waterhouse, editor.] A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, Late a Surgeon on Board an American Privateer. Boston, Massachusetts: Rowe and Hooper, 1816.

12mo. Original leather binding. FIRST EDITION. Howes W-155; Sabin 102060.

Provenance: Asahel Bowers (ownership inscription "Asahel Bowers Book" to interior front cover and stamped "Asahel Bowers 1830" to title page.

An account of a surgeon aboard an American privateer during the War of 1812. Contains fascinating descriptions, anecdotes, and remarks about the War, including the ship's capture at sea by the HMS Tenedos, helmed by Captain Hyde Parker (1784-1854), and his confinement, both on board a prison ship and ashore, first in Halifax at Melville Island, then in England at Chatham and later Dartmoor Prison.

[War of 1812, James Madison, Battle of Lake Erie, Battle of Plattsburgh, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans, Treaty of Ghent, Andrew Jackson] [Books, Bibles, Soldiers' Bibles, Prayer Books, Ephemera, Pamphlets, Publications, Booklets, Memoirs]

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[WAR OF 1812] American Privateer's Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment

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