Confederate Prisons - Four Books

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Andersonville
A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah,
Millen, Blackshear and Florence
By John McElroy, 1879
655 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
- Bonus -
Battle Field
And Prison Pen
Or,
Through The War, Twice A Prisoner
In Rebel Dungeons
By John W. Urban, 1882
422 pages, illustrated, searchable
- Bonus -
Life-Struggles
In Rebel Prisons
A Record of
Sufferings, Escapes, Adventures and
Starvation of the Union Prisoners
Published 1865 By Joseph Ferguson,
Capt. First New Jersey Vols.
260 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
Bonus Honor Roll List of Andersonville Dead
- Bonus -
Lights and Shadows
In Confederate Prisons
By Homer B. Sprague, 1915
163 pages, Illustrated, Searchable
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Contents - Andersonville
CHAPTER I. A Strange Land The Heart of the Appalachians The Gateway of an Empire A Sequestered Vale, and a Primitive, Arcadian, Non-pro- gressive People 83 CHAPTER II. Scarcity of Food for the Army Raid for Forage Encounter with the Rebels Sharp Cavalry Fight Defeat of the "Johnnies" Powell's Valley Opened Up ... 87 CHAPTER IIL Living Off the Enemy Reveling in the Fatness of the Country Soldierly Purveying and Camp Cookery Susceptible Teamsters and Their Tendency to Flightiness Making a Soldier's Bed .... 45 CHAPTER IV. A Bitter Cold Morning and a Warm Awakening Trouble All Along the Line Fierce Conflicts, Assaults and Defense Prolonged and Des- perate Struggle, Ending witn a Surrender ..... 52 CHAPTER V. The Reaction Depression Biting Cold Sharp Hunger and Sad Re- flection . ... 61 CHAPTER VI. " On to Richmond!" Marching OH Foot Over the Mountains My Horse has a New Rider Unsophisticated Mountain Girls Discussing the Issues of the War Parting with " Hiatoga" . . . 65 CHAPTER VII. Entering Richmond Disappointment at its Appearance Everybody in Uniform Curled Darlings of the Capital The Rebel Flag Libby Prison Dick Turner Searching the New Comers ... 74 XX11. CONTENTS. CHAPTER VIII. Introduction to Prison Life The Pembertoo Building and its Occupants Neat Sailors Roll Call Rations and Clothing Chi valric "Con- fiscation" 83 CHAPTER IX. Beans or Peas Insufficiency of Darky Testimony A Guard Kills a Prisoner Prisoners Tease the Guards Desperate Outbreak . 89 CHAPTER X. The Exchange and the Cause of its Interruption Brief Resume of the Different Cartels, and the Difficulties that Led to Their Suspension 95 CHAPTER XL Putting in the Time Rations f- Cooking Utensils "Fiat" Soup "Spooning" African Newspaper Venders Trading Greenbacks for Confederate Money Visit from John Morgan . . . 101 CHAPTER XII. Remarks as to Nomenclature Vaccination and Its Effects" N'Yaarker's," Their Characteristics, and their Methods of Operating . . 109 CHAPTER XIII. Belle Isle Terrible Suffering from Cold and Hunger Fate of Lieuten- ant Boisseux's Dog Our Company Mystery Termination of All Hopes of Its Solution 114 CHAPTER XIV. Hoping for Exchange An Exposition of the Doctrine of Chances Off fer Andersonville Uncertainty as to Our Destination Arrival at Andersonville 118 CHAPTER XV. Georg'a A Lean and Hungry Land Difference between Upper and Lower Georgia The Village of Andersonville .... 122 CHAPTER XVI. Waking Up in Ander&onville Some Description of the Place Our First Mail Building Shelter Gen. Winder Himself and Lineage 128 CHAPTER XVII. The Plantation Negros Not Too Stupid to be Loyal Their Dithyi ambic Music Copperhead opinion of Longfellow .... 134 CHAPTER XVIII. Schemes and Plans to Escape Scaling the Stockade Establishing the Dead Line The First Man Killed ...... 138 CONTENTS. CHAPTER XIX. Capt. Henri Wirz Some Description of a Small-minded Personage, who Gained Great Notoriety First Experience with His Disciplinary JHethod 142 CHAPTER XX. Prize-fight Among the N'Yaarkers A Great Many Formalities, and Little Blood Spilt A Futile Attempt to Recover a Watch Defeat of the Law and Order Party . , 146 CHAPTER XXI. Diminishing Rations A Deadly Cold Rain Hovering Over Pitch Pine Fires Increase of Mortality A Theory of Health . . . 151 CHAPTER XXII. Difference Between Alabamians and Georgians Death of "Poll Parrott" A Good Joke Upon the Guard A Brutal Rascal . . . 156 CHAPTER XXIII. A New Lot of Prisoners The Battle of Oolustee Men Sacrificed to a General's Incompetency A Hoodlum Reinforcement A Queer Crowd Mistreatment of an Officer of a Colored Regiment Killing the Sergeant of a Negro Squad 160 CHAPTER XXIV. April. Longing to Get Out The Death Rate The Plague of Lice The So-called Hospital 184 CHAPTER XXV. The "Plymouth Pilgrims" Sad Transition from Comfortable Barracks to Andersonville A Crazed Pennsylvanian Development of the Sutler Business 168 CHAPTER XXVI. Longings for God's Country Considerations of the Methods of Getting There Exchange and Escape Digging Tunnels, and the Diificul- lies Connected Therewith Punishment of a Traitor . . . 174 CHAPTER XXVII. The Hounds, and the Difficulties They Pat in the Way of Escape The Whole South Patrolled by Them ... ... 181 CHAPTER XXVIII. May Influx of New Prisoners Disparity in Numbers Between the Eastern and Western Armies Terrible Crowding Slaughter of Men at tue Creek 186 XXIV. CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXIX. Some Distinction Between Soldierly Duty and Murder A Plot to Escape It Is Revealed and Frustrated 191 June Possibilities of a Murderous Cannonade What was Proposed to be Done in That Event A False Alarm Deterioration of the Rations Fearful Increase of Mortality 195 CHAPTER XXXI. Dying by Inches Seitz, the Slow, and His Death Stiggall and Emer- son Ravages of the Scurvy 200 CHAPTER XXXII. "Ole Boo," and " Ole Sol, the Haymaker "A Fetid, Burning Desert Noisome Water, and the Effects of Drinking It Stealing S jf t Soap 207 CHAPTER XXXIII. " Pour Passer le Temps " A Set of Chessmen Procured Under Difficul- ties Religious Services The Devoted Priest War Song . 218 CHAPTER XXXIV. Maggots, Lice and Raiders Practices of The- Human Vermin Plun- dering the Sick and Dying Night Attacks, and Battles by Day Hard Times for the Small Traders . . . . . . 220 CHAPTER XXXV. A Community without Government Formation of the Regulators Haiders Attack Key but are Bluffed Off Assault of the Regulators on the Raiders Desperate Battle Overthrow of the Raiders . 235 CHAPTER XXXVI. Why the Regulators were not Assisted by the Entire Camp Peculiari- ties of Boys from Different Sections Hunting the Raiders Down Exploits of My Left-handed Lieutenant Running the Gauntlet . 234 CHAPTER XXXVII. The Execution Building the Scaffold Doubts of the Camp Captain Wirz Thinks It Is Probably a Ruse .to Force the Stockade His Preparations Against Such an Attempt Entrance of the Doomed Ones They Realize Their Fate One Makes a Desperate Effort to Escape His Re-capture Intense Excitement Wirz Orders the Guns to Open Fortunately They Do Not The Six are Hanged One Breaks His Rope Scene When the Raiders are Cut Down . 241 CHAPTER XXXVIII. After the Execution Formation of a Police Force Its First Chief " Spanking " an Offender 253 CONTENTS. XXV. CHAPTER XXXIX. July The Prison Becomes More Crowded, the Weather Hotter, Rations Poorer, and Mortality Greater Some of the Phenomena of Suffer- ing and Death , . , 258 CHAPTER XL. The Battle of the 22d of July The Army of the Tennessee Assaulted Front and Rear Death of General McFherson Assumption of Command by General Logan Result of the Battle . . 264 CHAPTER XLI. Clothing: Its Rapid Deterioration, and Devices to Replenish It Des- perate Efforts to Cover Nakedness "Little Red Cap" and His Letter 288 CHAPTER XLIL Some Features of the Mortality Percentage of Deaths to Those Living An Average Man Only Stands the Misery Three Months Descrip- tion of the Prison and the Condition of the Men Therein, by a Lead- ing Scientific Man of the South 294 CHAPTER XLIII. Difficulty of Exercising Embarrassments of a Morning Walk The Rialto of the Prison Cursing the Southern Confederacy The Story of the Battle of Spottsylvania Court House . . . ' 828 CHAPTER XLIV. Rebel Music Singular Lack of the Creative Power Among the South- erners Contrast with Similar People Elsewhere Their Favorite Music, and where it was Borrowed from A Fifer with One Tune 380 CHAPTER XLV. August Needles Stuck in Pumpkin Seeds Some Phenomena of Starvation Rioting in Remembered Luxuries . . 338 CHAPTER XLVI. A Surly Briton The Stolid Courage that makes the English Flag a Ban- ner of Triumph Our Company Bugler, His Characteristics aud His Death Urgent Demand for Mechanics None Want to Go Treatment of a Rebel Shoemaker Enlargement of the Stockade It is Broken by a Storm The Wonderful Spring . 845 CHAPTER XL VII. " Sick Call," and the Scenes that Accompanied It Mustering the Lame, Halt and Diseased at the South Gate An Unusually Bad Case Going Out to the Hospital Accommodation and Treatment of the Patients There The Horrible Suffering in the Gangrene Ward Bungling Amputations by Blundering Practitioners Affection Be- tween a Sailor and His Ward Death of My Comrade . . 355 XXVI. CONTENTS. CHAPTER XL VIII Determination to Escape Different Plans and their Merits I Prefer the Appalachicola Route Preparations for Departure A Hot Day The Fence Passed Successfully Pursued by the Ilounda Caught Returned to the Stockade 364 CHAPTER XLIX. August Good Luck in not Meeting Captain Wirz That Worthy's Treatment of Recaptured Prisoners Secret Societies in Prison Singular Meeting and its Result Discovery and Removal of the Officers Among the Enlisted Men 374 CHAPTER L. Food Its Meagerness, Inferior Quality, and Terrible Sameness Rebel Testimony on the Subject Futility of Successful Explanation . 380 CHAPTER LI. Solicitude as to the Fate of Atlanta and Sherman's Army Paucity of News How We Heard that Atlanta Had Fallen Announcement of a General Exchange We Leave Andersonville . . . 894 CHAPTER LII. Savannah Devices to Obtain Materials for a Tent Their Ultimate Success Resumption of Tunneling Escaping by Wholesale and Being Re-captured en masse The Obstacles that Lay Between Us and Our Lines .... 404 CHAPTER LIIL Frank Beverstock's Attempt at Escape Passing Off as a Rebel Boy He Reaches Griswoldville by Rail, and then Strikes Across the Country for Sherman, but is Caught within Twenty Miles of Our Lines . 412 CHAPTER LIV. Savannah Proves to be a Change for the Better Escape from the Brats of Guards Comparison Between Wirz and Davis A Brief Inter- val of Good Rations Winder, the Man with the Evil Eye The Disloyal Work of a Shyster 420 CHAPTER LV. Why We Were Hurried Out of Andersonville The Effect of the Fall of Atlanta Our Longing to Hfiar the News Arrival of Some Fresh Fish How We Knew They Were Western Boys Difference in the Appearance of the Soldiers of the Two Armies . . . 431 CHAPTER LVI. What Caused the Fall of Atlanta A Dissertation Upon an Important Psychological Problem The Battle of Jonesboro Why It Was CONTENTS. Fought How Sherman Deceived Hood A Desperate Bayonet Charge, and the Only Successful One in the Atlanta Campaign A Gallant Colonel and How He Died The Heroism of Some Enlisted Men Going Calmly Certain Death 438 CHAPTER LVII. A Fair Sacrifice The Story of One Boy Who Willingly Gave His Young Life for His Country 448 CHAPTER LVIII. We Leave Savannah More Hopes of Exchange Scenes at Departure "Flankers" On the Back Track Toward Andersonville Alarm Thereat At the Parting of Two Ways We Finally Bring Up at Camp Lawton 450 CHAPTER LIX. Our New Quarters at Camp Lawton Building a Hut An Exceptional Commandant He is a Good Man, but will Take Bribes Rations 455 CHAPTER LX. The Raiders Re-appear on the Scene The Attempt to Assassinate Those Who were Concerned in the Execution A Couple of Lively Fights, in Which the Raiders are Defeated Holding an Election . . 480 CHAPTER LXI. The Rebels Formally Propose to Us to Desert to Them Contumelious Treatment of the Proposition Their Rage An Exciting Time An Outbreak Threatened Difficulties Attending Desertion to the Rebels 408 CHAPTER LXII. Sergeant Leroy L. Key His Adventures Subsequent to the Execution He Goes Outside at Andersonville on Parole Labors in the Cook- house Attempts to Escape Is Re-captured and Taken to Macon Escapes from There, but is Compelled to Return Is Finally Ex- changed at Savannah 471 CHAPTER LXIII. Dreary Weather The Cold Rains Distress All and Kill Hundreds Exchange of Ten Thousand Sick Captain Bowes Turns a Pretty, but Not Very Honest, Penny 486 CHAPTER LXIV. Another Removal Sherman's Advance Scares thd Rebels Into Running Us Away From Millen We are Taken to Savannah, and Thence Down the Atlantic & Gulf Road to Blackshear .... 490 XXVU1. CONTENTS. CHAPTER LXV. Blackshearand Pierce County We Take Up New Quarters, but are Called Out for Exchange Excitement Over Signing the Parole A Happy Journey to Savannah Grievous Disappointment . . . 496 CHAPTER LXVI. A Specimen Conversation with an Average Native Georgian We Learn that Sherman is Heading for Savannah The Reserves Get a Little Setting Down 605 CHAPTER XLVII. Off to Charleston Passing Through the Rice Swamps Two Extremes of Society Entry into Charleston Leisurely Warfare Shelling the City at Regular Intervals We Camp in a Mass of Ruins De- parture for Florence 518 CHAPTER LXVIII. First Days at Florence Introduction to Lieutenant Barrett, the Red- headed Keeper A Brief Description of Our New Quarters Win- der's Malign Influence Manifest ... ... 524 CHAPTER XLIX. Barrett's Insane Cruelty How He Punished Those Alleged to be En- gaged in Tunneling The Misery in the Stockade Men's Limbs Rotting Off with Dry Gangrene . . . . . . 583 CHAPTER LXX. / House and Clothes Efforts to Erect a Suitable Residence Difficulties Attending This Varieties of Florentine Architecture Waiting for Dead Men's Clothes Craving for Tobacco 538 CHAPTER LXXI. December Rations of Wood and Food Grow Less Daily Uncertainty as to the Mortality at Florence Even the Government's Statistics are Very Deficient Care for the Sick . . \ . 542 CHAPTER LXXII. Dull Winter Days Too Weak an-l Too Stupid to Amuse Ourselves Attempts of the Rebels to Recrui Us Into Their Army The Class of Men They Obtained Vengeance on " the Galvanized " A Sin- gular Experience Rare Glimpses of Fun Inability of the Rebels to Count 550 CHAPTER LXXIII. Christmas, and the Way It Was Passed The Daily Routine of Ration Drawing Some Peculiarities of Living and Dying . . . 557 CONTEN IS. XXUC. CHAPTER LXXIV. New Tear's Day Death of John H. Winder He Dies on His Way to a Dinner Something as to Character and Career One of the Worst Men That Ever Lived 501 CHAPTER LXXV. One Instance of a Successful Escape The Adventures of Sergeant Walter Hartsough, of Company K, Sixteenth Illinois Cavalry He Gets Away from the Rebels at Thomasville, and after a Toilsome and Dan- gerous Journey of Several Hundred Miles, Reaches Our Lines in Florida 567 CHAPTER LXXVI. The Peculiar Type of Insanity Prevalent at Florence Barrett's Wanton- ness of Cruelty We Learn of Sherman's Advance Into South Car- olina The Rebels Begin Moving the Prisoners Away Andrews and I Change Our Tactics, and Stay Behind Arrival of Five Prisoners from Sherman's Command Their Unbounded Confidence in Shei man's Success, and Its Beneficial Effect Upon Us . . 578 CHAPTER LXXVU. Fruitless Waiting for Sherman We Leave Florence Intelligence of the Fall of Wilmington Communicated to Us by a Slave The Turpen- tine Region of North Carolina We Come Upon a Rebel Line of Battle Yankees at Both Ends of the Road 585 CHAPTER LXXVIII. Return to Florence and a Short Sojourn There Off Toward Wilming- ton Again Cribbing a Rebel Officer's Lunch Signs of Approach- ing Our Lines Terror of Our Rascally Guards Entrance Into God's Country at Last ... 592 CHAPTER LXXIX. Getting Used to Freedom Delights of a Land Where There Is Enough of Everything First Glimpse of the Old Flag Wilmington and its History Lieutenant Cashing First Acquaintance with the Colored Troops Leaving for Home Destruction of the " Thorn" by a Tor- pedo The Mock Moni 01 's Achievement 599 CHAPTER LXXX. Visit to Fort Fisher, and Inspection of that Stronghold The Way It Was Captured Out on the Ocean Sailing Terribly Sea Sick Rapid Recovery Arrival at Annapolis Washed, Clothed and Fed Unbounded Luxury, aud Days of Unadulterated Happiness . 614 XXX. CONTENTS. CHAPTER LXXXL Religions Life and Work in Andersonville How Captured Impressions on Reaching the Prison How Treated Looking for Religious Companions Notes from Day to Day Coadjutors in Organizing Prayer Meetings Brutal Treatment of the Sick by Rebels Meager Rations, Etc 628 CHAPTER LXXXTI. Captain Wirz, the Only One of the Prison-keepers Punished His Arrest, Trial and Execution 639 CHAPTER LXXXIII. The Responsibility Who Was to Blame for All the Misery An Ex- ami nation of the Flimsy Excuses Made for the Rebels One Docu- ment That Convicts them What Is Desired . 645
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