John Gill Lemmon: Andersonville Survivor and California Botanist

摘要

Brad Agnew and Kelly Agnew’s John Gill Lemmon: Andersonville Survivor and California Botanist is an interesting book about the botanical pursuits of Californians John Gill Lemmon (1832-1908) and his wife Sara Allen Plummer Lemmon (1836-1923) in the midto late 19th century. The title of this book does not represent the scope of John Lemmon’s capture in two American Civil War (1861-1865) Confederate prisoner of war camps; nor that Lemmon studied, and obtained, botanica in several other western states (New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Oregon) other than California. The Agnew and Agnew book is thorough, and chronological, in the detail of Lemmon’s extraordinary life, and it will appeal to American Civil War history buffs, botanical historians, and archival researchers equally.