Drawing on twenty-nine letters he sent home from the army, Henry Eby recounts his service with the 7th Illinois Cavalry from Camp Butler through New Madrid and Island No. 10 to Chickamauga, where he was captured. The second half of the book records Belle Isle, Richmond prison hospitals and the smallpox ward from a sick prisoner’s cot.
A plain, first-hand soldier’s account valued by anyone studying Civil War prisons. Download the free EPUB.