James G BOVEY / Sgt James G Bovey's Post Civil War Scrapbook Album

  

Bovey's Post Civil War Scrapbook Album of The First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Association, The Union Prisoners of War Association, and other G. Thumb-indexed ledger scrapbook (8 ¼" x 13 ½").

Contemporary quarter leather and marbled paper boards, printed label: J. With two tintype portraits mounted on the front pastedown, presumably of James Bovey (in uniform and civilian clothes).

The leather spine back is perished, both boards are rubbed and worn at the edges, else very good overall with scattered light glue stains and short tears to some mounted items. A large album consisting of approximately 88 pages of mounted ephemera (over 150 items): including programs, circulars, broadsides, tickets, menus, music programs, holograph letters, and clippings. Of particular importance are documents and ephemera of the Union Prisoners of War Association, the National Union of Survivors of Andersonville and other Southern Military Prisons, together with other local associations of Survivors of Rebel Prisons.

Bovey of the Massachusetts Heavy Artillery (First Regiment, Company G). Bovey mustered in from Salem, Massachusetts in December 1863 as 1st Sergeant. He was captured along with other soldiers from his regiment during the Siege of Petersburg on June 22, 1864 and sent to the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp in Georgia. The album includes an 1876 holograph letter from C. Barstow, who was also imprisoned at Andersonville, and an 1873 holograph letter from Brigadier General Horace Binney Sargent, who later served as Commandant of the Massachusetts Department of the G.

An historically important scrapbook album containing much unique and visually appealing ephemeral material relating to Union survivors of Confederate prisons during the Civil War. Today we offer a wide ranging inventory, from Modern First Editions to General Used Books to Rare Archival Collections. We are active members of. Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA). International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).

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