A journal of a young man of Massachusetts :
late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined first at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last, at Dartmoor prison : interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations : to which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners /
written by himself.

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Main Author

Babcock, Amos G.

Related Names

Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846.
Emory University Archives.
Emory College. Phi Gamma Society
S. & F. Grantland (Firm)

Language(s)

English

Published

Milledgeville, (Geo.) : Re-printed by S. & F. Grantland, 1816.

Subjects

Dartmoor Prison.
United States > United States / History > United States / History / War of 1812 > United States / History / War of 1812 / Prisoners and prisons.
Southern imprint > Southern imprint / Georgia > Southern imprint / Georgia / 1816.

Note

Usually considered a work of fiction by Benjamin Waterhouse, but, according to H.R. Viets, edited by Waterhouse from a manuscript of Amos G. Babcock. cf. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, v. 12, July 1940, pp. 605-622.

Physical Description

240 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 18 cm.

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