Si Klegg as a veteran at Andersonville, 1899.

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Si Klegg as a veteran at Andersonville, 1899.

Scrapbook containing mounted newspaper clippings constituting the fictionalized account of John McElroy's Andersonville, published serially in the National Tribune, Washington, D.C., in 1899. Serial titles used in the newspaper are Si Klegg as a Veteran, and Si Klegg and Shorty on the March to the Sea. Bound in full leather, badly deteriorated. Laid in is a newspaper obituary for Saul Levitt, author of the play "The Andersonville Trial."

1 v. ; 33 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8029349

Cornell University Library

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Andersonville Prison

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Levitt, Saul.

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American author, playwright, and screenwriter. From the description of Saul Levitt collection, 1933-1976. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70968385 ...

McElroy, John, 1846-1929

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Editor of the National Tribune in Washington, D.C. who had served in the 16th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War and wrote several books on that war. Osborn H. Oldroyd, from Ohio, was a collector of Lincoln artifacts and memorabilia who came to Springfield, Illinois in 1884 and lived in the Lincoln home, making it a museum, until the state bought it in 1893. He then moved his museum to Washington, D.C. to the house where Lincoln died. He sold his collection to the government in 1925 for $50,...