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Jacob R. Freese
1826–1885
A 19th-century American physician and writer, he moved easily between medicine, travel writing, and Civil War history. His books range from firsthand-style accounts of the Holy Land to a late reflection on the politics and hidden episodes of the American Civil War.
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Secrets of the Late Rebellion, Now Revealed for the First Time
by Jacob R. Freese
About the author
Jacob R. Freese (1826–1885) was an American author whose surviving works show an unusually wide range of interests. Library records connect him with books on medicine, education, travel, and the Civil War, suggesting a career shaped by both professional training and public affairs.
Among his best-known books are The Old World: Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor (1869), a travel narrative centered on the eastern Mediterranean, and Travels in the Holy Land: Syria, Asia Minor, and Turkey as They Were and Are (1882). He is also known for Secrets of the Late Rebellion, Now Revealed for the First Time (1882), a retrospective work on the Civil War era.
Catalog and archival records also identify him as a physician, and a Library of Congress manuscript entry shows him corresponding with Abraham Lincoln in December 1864 concerning an honorary degree from Princeton. Even in outline, his life reads like that of a restless 19th-century man of letters: part doctor, part traveler, and part commentator on the great conflicts of his time.