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K4 - An ex-library first edition (no additional printings) hardcover in fair condition in fair dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, and crease on the edges, corners and some sides, label on the spine, fading, some scattered wrinkling, scrathces, rubbing, scuffing, light smduges/stains, and few small tears, inside flaps adhered to the fixed endpapers, discoloration and shelf wear. Book has library markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc.), lightly cocked, some bumped corners and cover edgewear, some scattered line scratches, rubbing, scuffing, wrinkling, and light stains, light discoloration and shelf wear. 10.25"x7", 42 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. The Cash-Shannon Duel was the last major duel fought in America. Coming fifteen years after the Civil War, it shocked the South into the realization that notable and useful men were still shooting each other - and made Americans realize that dueling had to be banned. The duel described in this book was probably better documented and more deliberative than any other in American history. Cols. Cash and Shannon, both veterans of the Civil War, corresponded with each other for more than eight months before they met "on the field of honor." Their numerous letters, printed here for the first time in book form, not only outline the issues involved, but also mirror the personality of each contestant. Duels Around Camden traces dueling activity in the Camden, South Carolina, area from 1789, when Thomas Baker and Jacob Brown killed each other a stone's throw from the center of Camden, up to the Cash-Shannon Duel in 1880 . . . almost 100 years later. The Nixon-Hopkins Duel was the most significant duel of this era and the reader may be touched by the flourishing, tragic style in which this duel was recorded nearly a century and a half ago. This chapter also covers the duels of W.B. (Boggan) Cash, Col. Cash's son. These duels include two bloodless contests with S. Miller Williams and James Cantey, both of Camden. The Code of Honor not only describes the proper conduct for duelers and seconds, but at the same time it masterfully defends the duel as the only way "honorable men" can settle their differences. It was the code followed in most duels fought in the South and particularly in the later duels around Camden, including the Cash-Shannon Duel. This code was accepted as the authoritative ground rules for dueling for nearly fifty years. Written by a Charleston minister and former governor of South Carolina, it is as much a piece of philosophy as it is a set of rules. Because of its acceptance, the reader can rightfully study it to perceive the mind of men of that day and age. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 2307ec492
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