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Andersonville:

A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, Fifteen Months a Guest of the So-called Southern Confederacy : a Private Soldier's Experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence
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D. R. Locke, 1878 - History - 654 pages
Description of military prison life during the Civil War.

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User Review  - Emmett - Goodreads

This is about the time I feel like a real shit for assigning stars to someone's work, particularly when it is a memoir of something so incomprehensibly horrible and tragic. But, yeah, fuck it, four ... Read full review

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User Review  - Ken Childress - Goodreads

Very graphic and sad. I would like to read an account of how the confederate prisoners were treated in the North. I am sure it wasn't much better. Read full review

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Contents

CHAPTER II
37
Living Off the EnemyReveling in the Fatness of the CountrySoldierly
45
CHAPTER IV
52
CHAPTER V
61
Entering Richmond Disappointment at its Appearance Everybody
74
Beans or Peas Insufficiency of Darky Testimony A Guard Kills
89
CHAPTER X
95
CHAPTER XI
101
Morning Assemblage of Sick at the South Gate
356
Cancer in the Mouth 300
361
Death of Watts
363
Planning Escape
365
Our Progress was Terribly SlowEvery Step Hurt Fearfully 870
370
Come Ashore There Quick
372
August Good Luck in not Meeting Captain Wirz That Worthys
374
He Shrieked Imprecations and Curses
375

Stripping the Dead for Clothes
107
A Plymouth Pilgrim
109
The English Bugler 346
110
Georgia A Lean and Hungry LandDifference between Upper
122
Waking Up in Andersonville Some Description of the Place
128
CHAPTER XVII
134
Capt Henri Wire Some Description of a Smallminded Personage
143
CHAPTER XXI
151
A New Lot of PrisonersThe Battle of OolusteeMen Sacrificed to
160
CHAPTER XXV
168
The Crazy Pennsylvanian
170
Midnight Attack of the Raiders
173
Longings for Gods Country Considerations of the Methods of Getting
174
Ignominious End of n Tunnel Enterprize
176
Tunneling
177
Tattooing the Tunnel Traitor
179
CHAPTER XXVII
181
Overpowering a Guard
182
A Master of the Hounds
184
Hounds Tearing a Prisoner
185
Shot at the Creek by the Guard
189
June Possibilities of a Murderous Cannonade What was Proposed
195
Cookiug Mush 19
201
Finding Seitz Dead
203
A Case of Scurvy
205
Ole Boo and Ole Sol the HaymakerA Fetid Burning Desert
207
Confiscating Soft Soap
211
Determination to Escape Different Plans and their Merits I Prefer
212
Religious Services
215
The Priest Anointing the Dying
216
Pour Passer le TempsA Set of Chessmen Procured Under Difficul
218
Raider Fight with one of Ellens Marine Brigade
223
A Community without Government Formation of the Regulators
225
Key Bluffing His WoulJbe assassins
228
Rebel Artillerists Training the Cannon on the Prison
231
Overthrow of the Raiders
232
CHAPTER XXXVI
234
Arrest of Pete Donnelly
237
Death of the Sailor
240
The Execution Building the ScaffoldDoubts of the Camp Captain
241
Execution of the Raiders
245
After the Execution Formation of a Police Force Its First Chief
252
Sergeant A R Hill 100th O V I
253
Spanking a Thief 236
256
July The Prison Becomes More Crowded the Weather Hotter Rations
258
The Wounded Illinois Sergeant
261
CHAPTER XL
264
The Idiotic Flute Player 2CJ 66 One of Shermans Veterans 2G8 67 You Hoar Me
270
Logan Taking Command of the Army of the Tennessee
273
Death of MPbeison
276
The Work of a Shell 218
281
In the Riflepit After the Battle
283
Its Rapid Deterioration and Devices to Replenish ItDes
286
Taken In 235
287
His Appearance in July 18G4 28a 76 Little Red Cap
291
Fresh Fish
293
Some Features of the Mortality Percentage of Deaths to Those Living
294
Burying the Dead
307
The Q i aveyard at Andersonville as the Rebels Left It
312
CHAPTER XLIII
323
Denouncing the Southern Confederacy
325
CHAPTER XLIV
330
The Charge 3 8
338
Nursing a Sick Comrade 8 9
339
A Dream
344
CHAPTER XLVI
345
The Break in the Stockade 851
351
At the Spring
353
Sick Call and the Scenes that Accompanied It Mustering the Lame
355
The Chain Gang
376
CHAPTER L
380
Interior of the StockadeThe Creek at the East Side
386
A Section from the East Side of the Prison Showing the Dead Line
389
Solicitude as to the Fate of Atlanta and Shermans Army Paucity
394
Halfpast Eight Oclock and Atlantas Gone to H11 895
397
Savannah Devices to Obtain Materials for a Tent Their Ultimate
404
Georgian Development of the Proud Caucasian 899
405
When We Matched Our Intellects Against a Rebels
406
There was a Post and a Fire
408
Carrying Away the Dirt
409
His New Idea was to have a Heavily Laden Cart Driven Around Inside the Dead Line
410
They Stood Around the Gate and Yelled Derisively
411
Frank Beverstocks Attempt at Escape Passing Off as a Rebel Boy
412
Sergeant Frank Beverstock
413
Savannah Proves to be a Change for the Better Escape from the Brats
420
He Bade Them Good bye 4 5
423
A Mad Sergeant
428
Why We Were Hurried Out of Andersonville The Effect of the Fall
431
One of Fergusons Cavalry
445
Then the Clear Blue Eyes and Wellremembered Smile
448
He Propped This Up Before the Fire
453
CHAPTER LIX
455
Millen 4o4 118 A House Builded With Our Own Hands
457
Our First Meat
459
The Rebels Formally Propose to Us to Desert to Them Contumelious
466
A Lucky Find 4GJ 121 Sergeant L L Key
472
We Find Ourselves in the Densest Pine Forest I Ever Saw
473
The Dogs Came Within Not Less Three Hundred Yards of Us
475
Where Are You Going You Dd Yank?
482
Dreary Weather The Cold Rains Distress All and Kill Hundreds
486
Blackshearand Pierce CountyWe Take Dp New Quarters but are Called
496
They Threw Their Blankets Etc to Those Iaside
501
A Specimen Conversation with an Average Native Georgian
505
Who Mout These Be f
506
A Roadside View
509
The Charleston Savannah Railroad
510
A Rice Plantation Negro
511
Off to Charleston Passing Through the Rice Swamps Two Extremes
513
A Rice Field Gill
514
A Rice Swamp
515
131 A Scene in the Burnt District
518
The Part Where We Lay Was a Mass of Rains
519
Kuins of St Finbar Cathedral
521
The Unlucky Negro Fell Pierced by a Score of Bullets
523
First Days at Florence Introduction to Lieutenant Barrett the Red
524
Recapture of the Runaways
530
Barretts Insane Cruelty How He Punished Those Alleged to be
532
Corporal J H Matthews
533
Take These Shears and Cut My Toes Off 586
536
House and Clothes Efforts to Erect a Suitable Residence Difficulties
538
Corporal John W January
545
Dull Winter Days Too Weak ani Too Stupid to Amuse Ourselves
550
CHAPTER LXXIII
557
CHAPTER LXXV
567
The Peculiar Iypc of Insanity Prevalent at Florence Bsrretts Wanton
576
Return to Florence and a Short Sojourn There Oli Toward Wilming
592
Corporal Calvin Bates 54b 142 Andrews Managed to Fish Out the Bag and Pass to Me Three Roasted Chickens
594
In Gods Country at Last 000
600
Map of Wilmington and Neighborhood 60i 145 The Mock Monitor
612
Visit to Fort Fisher and Inspection of that Stronghold The Way
614
Fort Fisher and Connected Works C14 147 The One Hundred and Fifty Pound Armstrong
615
The Infantry Assault on Fort Fisher
617
They Removed Every Trace of Prison Grime
624
Boston Corbett C28 151 The Cemetery at Andersonville as Placed in Order by the Party Under Charge of Miss Clara Barton
638
Trial of Captain Wirz
642
Peace
655
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