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Prison Life In Andersonville

Prison Life In Andersonville

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TABLE _of_ CONTENTS


CHAPTER. PAGE.

I. The Writer's Credentials 19

II. View of a Confederate Prison 27

III. The Prison Commisariat 35

IV. A Dearth of Water 53

V. A Cry to Heaven 61

VI. Unsealing of the Spring 65

VII. Was It a Miracle? 72

VIII. Deliverance 85

IX. An Incident by the Way 93

X. A Sequel 103


APPENDIX. PAGE.

A. Contributory Testimony 116

B. Responsibility for Prison Treatment 119

C. Woman's Relief Corps Memorial 123

D. A Memorial Day Meditation 135
Rev. H. H. Proctor, D. D. of Atlanta.

E. Permanent Honors for Confederate Heroes 141




ILLUSTRATIONS


The Author: As Prospective Soldier. As Present Writer.

Plan of the Prison Pen.

View of Interior and Foreground.

A Dream.

The Broken Stockade.

The Spring and Women of the Relief Corps.

Adventure in Wilmington Hospital.

The Beloved Teacher.

The Michigan Monument in Andersonville.

The Andersonville Cemetery.




A Personal Foreword


The establishment and perpetuity of our Union have been secured by the
sacrifices of war. The Declaration of Independence preceded seven weary
years of conflict, whose culminating sufferings were experienced in the
British prison ships and in the winter camp at Valley Forge. In this
contest the patriotic soldiers of the north and of the south made common
cause, and what they did and what they suffered indicates a measure of the
enduring worth of our national life. The story of revolutionary days finds
an enlarged counterpart in the sufferings of the civil war.

A phase of the great struggle is recalled in the following narrative of
events, which belongs to a rapidly receding past. Soon no survivor will be
left to tell the tale; hence the desirability of putting it into permanent
form before it fades altogether from recollection. To some the story of
the breaking out of Providence Spring may seem to have been given undue
prominence in this record; but it is around that event that these
reminiscences gather, and the circumstances attending were so indelibly
stamped upon the memory of the writer that they call for expression.
Probably he was the youngest of the group of Andersonville prisoners who
participated in the concert of prayer that preceded the unsealing of the
fountain, and on that account he may be the only survivor
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