Fourteen Months in American Bastiles

by Francis Key Howard

$350 · Offered by Back Creek Books

First edition

Baltimore: Kelly, Hedian & Piet, 1863. First Edition. Original printed wrappers. Octavo. 89 pages. Frank Key Howard was a Baltimore journalist and editor who was arrested without a warrant by the Lincoln administration for an editorial he wrote criticizing the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus at the beginning of the Civil War. Howard was the grandson of both Francis Scott Key

• Binding: Wrappers

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