Stolen library book returned after 145 years

A stolen library book has been returned nearly 145 years after it was half-inched by a Union soldier during the American Civil War, reports AP.

The 1842 book, the first volume of W.F.P. Napier’s four-volume “History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814,” was returned recently by a friend of one of the soldier’s descendants to Washington and Lee University’s Leyburn Library.