Andersonville
Fifteen Months a Guest of the So-Called
Southern Confederacy
A Private Soldiers Experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen
Blackshear and Florence
1879. Late of Co. L. 16th Ill Cav
To the Honorable
Noah H. Swayne
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
A Jurist of Distinguished Talents and Exalted Character
One of the Last of That
Admirable Array of Pure Patriots and Sagacious Counselors
Who, in the Years of the Nation’s Trial
FAITHFULLY SURROUNDED THE GREAT PRESIDENT, AND, WITH HIM, BORE THE BURDEN OF THOSE MOMENTOUS DAYS; AND WHOSE WISDOM AND FAIRNESS HAVE DONE SO MUCH SINCE