Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons is John McElroy's 1879 memoir of his Union cavalry service and fifteen months as a prisoner of the Confederacy. He recounts life and suffering in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence. It offers a firsthand historical account of Civil War prison experience and human endurance.
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SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY A PRIVATE SOLDIERS EXPERIENCE IN RICHMOND, ANDERSONVILLE, SAVANNAH, MILLEN BLACKSHEAR AND FLORENCE BY JOHN McELROY Late of Co. L. 16th Ill Cav. 1879 bookcover.jpg (204K) 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 TO CONSERVE WHAT WAS THEN WON, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED WITH RESPECT AND APPRECIATION,
BY THE AUTHOR. p000.jpg (129K) CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION AUTHOR'S PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS CHAPTER I. A STRANGE LAND--THE HEART OF THE APPALACHIANS--THE GATEWAY OF AN EMPIRE --A SEQUESTERED VALE, AND A PRIMITIVE, ARCADIAN, NON-PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE. CHAPTER II. SCARCITY OF FOOD FOR THE ARMY--RAID FOR FORAGE-- ENCOUNTER WIT THE REBELS --SHARP CAVALRY FIGHT--DEFEAT OF THE “JOHNNIES"--POWELL'S VALLEY OPENED UP. CHAPTER III. LIVING OFF THE ENEMY--REVELING IN THE FATNESS OF THE COUNTRY--SOLDIERLY PURVEYING AND CAMP COOKERY-- SUSCEPTIBLE TEAMSTERS AND THEIR TENDENCY TO FLIGHTINESS--MAKING SOLDIER'S BED. CHAPTER IV.
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