Diary
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Link Singerman ID: supp1639
Year: 1862
Entry: De Gurowski, Adam F., count. Diary. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1862-66. 3 vols.
Author/Editor: De Gurowski, Adam F., count
Location: Boston, MA
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: Diary
Printer/Publisher: Lee and Shepard
Language: English
Notes: A pro-Union Civil War diary covering most of 1861-64 and replete with deprecations of the Jews as financiers, gold speculators, parvenus, traitors, volunteer enlistment bounty jumpers, etc., all indicative of "social leprosy" (vol. 2, p. 236). Notice the author’s loathing of August Belmont ("Belmont the Great") cast as the "prince-dictator of the Democrats, the liege lord of Wall street" (vol. 3, p. 386). Vol. 2 has imprint: New-York: Carleton; vol. 3 has imprint: Washington, D.C.: W. H. & and O. H. Morrison.