A library book which was stolen by a soldier during the US Civil War has been returned to a university's shelves nearly 145 years later.
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lost and found: The book is about early stages of the war between Spain and its allies against France over control over the Iberian Peninsula. pic/ap |
A library book which was stolen by a soldier during the US Civil War has been returned to a university's shelves nearly 145 years later.
The 1842 book, the first volume of WFP 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 to a Washington and Lee University library in the state of Virginia by a friend of one of the soldier's descendants.
Soldier C S Gates took the book on June 11, 1864, from the library.
The book, which covers the early stages of the war between Spain and its allies against France over control over the Iberian Peninsula, was passed down through C S Gates's descendants.
It eventually came into the possession of Mike Dau who inherited it more than 20 years ago. "I had been meaning to take it back for years," he said. The book is in good condition except for a loose binding.
