Item #58258 Life of Capt. Joseph Fry, The Cuban Martyr. Being a faithful Record of His Remarkable Career from Childhood to the Time of His Heroic Death at the Hands of Spanish Executioners; Recounting His Experience as an Officer in the U.S. and Confederate Navies, and Revealing much of the Inner History and Secret Marine Service of the Late Civil War in America. Jeanie Mort Walker, of New Orleans.

Life of Capt. Joseph Fry, The Cuban Martyr. Being a faithful Record of His Remarkable Career from Childhood to the Time of His Heroic Death at the Hands of Spanish Executioners; Recounting His Experience as an Officer in the U.S. and Confederate Navies, and Revealing much of the Inner History and Secret Marine Service of the Late Civil War in America.

Hartford: The J.B. Burr Publishing Co, 1875.

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First edition. Frontispiece portrait. 589 pp. including numerous full-page woodcuts. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Original green cloth. Spine tips a bit rubbed, lower cover with slight insect damage, front free endpapers missing.

Item #58258

Fry was Captain of the S.S. Virginius, a Cuban blockade runner fraudulently flying US colors and carrying guns and 300 Cuban rebels, when, in 173 it was seized by Spanish authorities Fry and over 50 U.S. and British citizens were executed as a result, nearly bringing on the war which erupted 1898 with the sinking of the Maine.