Princess Felix Salm Salm, Ten Years of My Life, 1st Ed.

Description

Agnes (Joy) Salm Salm was an adventurous girl from Vermont when she met and married an Austrian prince during the Civil War, and her journeys are chronicled in Ten Years of My Life.

Such were the travels of the Princess that only a part of the first volume of her memoirs is dedicated to her significant activities during the Civil War, much of it with the 68th New York Regiment. She met Abraham Lincoln and hung around the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac while her husband served on the army staff. Her memories are detailed and reliable.

Following the American Civil War she and her husband travelled to Mexico in a desperate effort to try to save Emperor Maximilian. Her entreaties to President Benito Juarez to save Maximilian from execution are legendary tales in the story of the Mexican Civil War.

Agnes recounts the couple’s move to Europe and her many experiences at court and in the field until the death of Prince Felix in the Franco-Prussian Wars.

Both volumes lightly cocked; boards rubbed and mottled, sometimes significantly on the spines. Lightly bumped; light chipping of extremities. The frontispiece in volume 1 is an original photo, apparently a silver print, of Agnes wearing a red cross brassard signifying her Cross of Merit for Women and Girls, awarded by Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph.

Salm Salm, Princess Felix (Agnes). Ten Years of My Life. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1876. 1st edition, 2 volumes, frontispiece.