The Mount Alto "Miracle Man" or The Queen's Quiet "Cackle"
[Rome, Georgia?]: Self published, 1964.
Hardcover. Tall quarto hardcover. Unpaginated. Frontispiece aerial photograph of Rome, Georgia. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover. Marbled end papers. Some soiling and wear to the boards. This book is a collection of historical background, copied photographs, copied documents, letterheads, and related ephemera concerning the life of Dr. Robert Battey and his family from Rome, Georgia. There are corrections made to the typed contents, pages numbered with blue pen, and a few photographs with blue handwritten names underneath. In the introduction it states Robert Battey, who volunteered to join the Confederate army in Virginia, was the last doctor on the field at Manassas - "seeking the wounded he found a soldier from Villa Rica, Carroll County, Ga with signs of life, sent him to the hospital and after a lapse back to duty. In 1867 the soldier married Elizabeth Frances Candler; his name was Henry Harris Dobbs. Many years later Samuel Candler Dobbs, of Atlanta, told sister Adrienne "That soldier was my father.""
Dr. Battey attended the big medical Congress in London, 1881. Apparently Dr. Battey met? Queen Elizabeth - "a secret of what happened is found in his ethical notes." The author George Magruder Battey was the author of "The History of Rome and Floyd County." Scarce. 4 copies located in OCLC. Good. Item #13129
Price: $150.00