A Glimpse Of Andersonville And Other Writings PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION. The matter contained in this little volume has been previously published. Many calls for parts of it in permanent form has led to this result. Profoundly impressed with the importance of patriotic teaching, I have striven to entertain the young. Finding myself actuated and sustained through a long service in the army by those impulses which were planted and nurtured in my youth, I have hoped to implant in the breast of another a germ of the same flower--it is one of the few whose fragrance grows sweeter with life's declining sun. If I succeed, it is all I hope for and much more than I have reason to expect, but the effort shall be no longer deferred. I have inserted two half-tone views of the only lot that were ever taken of Andersonville, and they will be of interest. They were made by order of the Confederate War department, by A. J. Riddell of Macon, Ga., on the 17th day of August '64, while I was an inmate. The pictures of my companion and myself, were taken in the uniform in which we were captured. THE AUTHOR. ANDERSONVILLE. CHAPTER I. THE CAPTURE AT REAM STATION JUNE 23d, 1864.--THE ANNIHIL- ATION OF THE 4TH. VERMONT REGIMENT.--TRANSFER TO LIB- BY PRISON. THE MARCH TO DANVILLE.--THE PLAN TO ES- CAPE.--THE PERPLEXITIES OF A DULL TABLE KNIFE. THE HOLE FINALLY CUT IN THE DOOR.--THE JUMP FROM THE TRAIN.--SAFE SO FAR.--BUT WHAT NEXT.--THE NORTH STAR, NOT WHERE IT USED TO BE. AT LAST IN TOUCH WITH THE INFINITE. ["Thousands of our boys in blue were prisoners of war and suffered privations, in southern prison pens, that form the darkest chapter in the history of the great rebellion. Occasionally there were attempts at escape, but rarely did these breaks for freedom succeed. The following narrative, which has been written at...