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Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

by John McElroy

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  1. 1Format Choice
  2. 2Andersonville… Who, in the Years of the Nation’s Trial
  3. 3To Conserve What Was Then Won — This Book Is Dedicated With Respect…
  4. 4Chapter XLII — Some Features of the Mortality…
  5. 5Chapter LIII — Frank Reverstock’s Attempt at Escape…
  6. 6Chapter LIV — Savannah Proves to Be a Change for the Better…
  7. 7Chapter LV — Why We Were Hurried Out of Andersonville…
  8. 8Chapter LVI — What Caused the Fall of Atlanta…
  9. 9Chapter LXIV — Another Removal…
  10. 10Chapter LXXV — One Instance of a Successful Escape…
  11. 11Chapter LXXXIII — The Responsibility…
  12. 12Introduction
  13. 13Author’s Preface
  14. 14Chapter I — A Strange Land…
  15. 15Chapter II — Scarcity of Food for the Army…
  16. 16Chapter III — Living Off the Enemy…
  17. 17Chapter IV — A Bitter Cold Morning and a Warm Awakening…
  18. 18Chapter V
  19. 19Chapter VI — “On to Richmond!”…
  20. 20Chapter VII — Entering Richmond…
  21. 21Chapter VIII — Introduction to Prison Life…
  22. 22Chapter IX — Brans or Peas…
  23. 23Chapter X — The Exchange and the Cause of Its Interruption — Brief…
  24. 24Chapter XI — Putting in the Time…
  25. 25Chapter XII — Remarks as to Nomenclature…
  26. 26Chapter XIII — Belle Isle…
  27. 27Chapter XIV — Hoping for Exchange…
  28. 28Chapter XV — Georgia—a Lean and Hungry Land…
  29. 29Chapter XVI — Waking Up in Andersonville…
  30. 30Chapter XVII — The Plantation Negros…
  31. 31Chapter XVIII — Schemes and Plans to Escape…
  32. 32Chapter XIX — Capt. Henri Wirz — Some Description of a Small-Minded…
  33. 33Chapter XX — Prize-Fight Among the N’yaarkers…
  34. 34Chapter XXI — Diminishing Rations…
  35. 35Chapter XXII — Difference Between Alabamians and Georgians…
  36. 36Chapter XXIII — A New Lot of Prisoners…
  37. 37Chapter XXIV — April — Longing to Get Out — The Death Rate — The Pl…
  38. 38Chapter XXV — The “Plymouth Pilgrims”…
  39. 39Chapter XXVI — Longings for God’s Country…
  40. 40Chapter XXVII — The Hounds, and the Difficulties They Put in the Wa…
  41. 41Chapter XXVIII — May—influx of New Prisoners…
  42. 42Chapter XXIX — Some Distinction Between Soldierly Duty and Murder —…
  43. 43Chapter XXX — June—possibilities of a Murderous Cannonade…
  44. 44Chapter XXXI — Dying by Inches…
  45. 45Chapter XXXII — “Ole Boo,” and “Ole Sol, the Haymaker”…
  46. 46Chapter XXXIII — “Pour Passer le Temps”…
  47. 47Chapter XXXIV — Maggots, Lice and Raiders…
  48. 48Chapter XXXV — A Community Without Government…
  49. 49Chapter XXXVI — Why the Regulators Were Not Assisted by the Entire…
  50. 50Chapter XXXVII — The Execution…
  51. 51Chapter XXXVIII — After the Execution — Formation of a Police Force…
  52. 52Chapter XXXIX — July — The Prison Becomes More Crowded, the Weather…
  53. 53Chapter XL — The Battle of the 22d of July…
  54. 54Chapter XLI — Clothing: Its Rapid Deterioration, and Devices to Rep…
  55. 55Chapter XLII — Some Features of the Mortality…
  56. 56Medical Testimony
  57. 57Stockade, Confederate States Military Prison
  58. 58Conclusions
  59. 59Chapter XLIII — Difficulty of Exercising…
  60. 60Chapter XLIV — Rebel Music…
  61. 61Chapter XLV — August — Needles Stuck in Pumpkin Seeds — Some Phenom…
  62. 62Chapter XLVI — Surly Briton…
  63. 63Chapter XLVII — “Sick Call,” and the Scenes That Accompanied It…
  64. 64Chapter XLVIII — Determination to Escape…
  65. 65Chapter XLIX — August—good Luck in Not Meeting Captain Wirz…
  66. 66Chapter L — Food—the Meagerness, Inferior Quality, and Terrible Sam…
  67. 67Chapter LI — Solicitude as to the Fate of Atlanta and Sherman’s Army…
  68. 68Chapter LII — Savannah…
  69. 69Chapter LIII — Frank Reverstock’s Attempt at Escape…
  70. 70Chapter LIV — Savannah Proves to Be a Change for the Better…
  71. 71Chapter LV — Why We Were Hurried Out of Andersonville…
  72. 72Chapter LVI — What Caused the Fall of Atlanta…
  73. 73Chapter LVII — A Fair Sacrifice — The Story of One Boy Who Willingl…
  74. 74Chapter LVIII — We Leave Savannah…
  75. 75Chapter LIX
  76. 76Chapter LX — The Raiders Reappear on the Scene…
  77. 77Chapter LXI — The Rebels Formally Propose to Us to Desert to Them…
  78. 78Chapter LXII — Sergeant Leroy L…
  79. 79Chapter LXIII — Dreary Weather…
  80. 80Chapter LXIV — Another Removal…
  81. 81Chapter LXV — Blackshear and Pierce Country…
  82. 82Chapter LXVI — Specimen Conversation With an Average Native Georgia…
  83. 83Chapter LXVII — Off to Charleston…
  84. 84Chapter LXVIII — First Days at Florence…
  85. 85Chapter LXIX — Barrett’s Insane Cruelty…
  86. 86Chapter LXX — House and Clothes…
  87. 87Chapter LXXI — December…
  88. 88Chapter LXXII
  89. 89Chapter LXXIII — Christmas…
  90. 90Chapter LXXIV — New Year’s Day…
  91. 91Chapter LXXV — One Instance of a Successful Escape…
  92. 92Chapter LXXVI — The Peculiar Type of Insanity Prevalent at Florence…
  93. 93Chapter LXXVII — Fruitless Waiting for Sherman…
  94. 94Chapter LXXVIII — Return to Florence and a Short Sojourn There…
  95. 95Chapter LXXIX — Getting Used to Freedom…
  96. 96Chapter LXXX — Visit to Fort Fisher, and Inspection of That Strongh…
  97. 97Chapter LXXXII — Captain Wirz the Only One of the Prison-Keepers Pu…
  98. 98Chapter LXXXIII — The Responsibility…

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