Part 17

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Illustrations were drawn by the author from sketches upon the spot, and from photographs which were taken by the rebels during the occupation of the prison. The figures are by Charles A. Barry, Esq., and the engraving by Henry Marsh, Esq.

NUMBER PAGE

I. View from Main Gate (from rebel photograph) 2

II. Vignette 7

III. Bird's-eye View of Stockade 19

IV. View of Officers' Stockade 21

V. View of Interior of the Prison 29

VI. View of Graveyard (from rebel photograph) 37

VII. View of Dead Line (from rebel photograph) 48

VIII. View of Gates 53

IX. View of Mud Huts 55

X. View of Burial (from rebel photograph) 57

XI. View of Bakery 61

XII. View of Kitchen 63

XIII. View of Blood-hound Hut 64

XIV. View of Utensils used by the Prisoners 96

XV. Map of Georgia 18

XVI. Plan of Andersonville 20

XVII. Plan of Prison 50

XVIII. Plan of Bakery 60

INDEX.

PAGE

BOOK FIRST.

_Introduction. Description of Andersonville: Locality, Arrangement, and Construction of the Camp._ 7-28

BOOK SECOND.

_Descriptive: the Number of Prisoners compared with the Armies of Alexander and Napoleon. The Dead compared with the Losses of the British Soldiers at Waterloo, Crimea, Spain, Mexican War, &c._ 28-40

BOOK THIRD.

_Describes at length the Stockade, with all the Arrangements, with Comparisons, Ratio of Density, &c._ 40-68

BOOK FOURTH.

_Relates to the Alimentation of the Prisoners, with Comparisons with the Dietaries of Foreign Armies, Hospitals, Prisons, Scarcity of Food in the Prison, Abundance of Food in the Country, &c._ 68-99

BOOK FIFTH.

_Review of the Hospital--its Arrangement and Results._ 99-113

BOOK SIXTH.

_Relates to the Mortality as compared with that of our Armies and Prisons, also with Foreign Armies, Prisons, and Hospitals, &c._ 113-142

BOOK SEVENTH.

_Relates to the Legal Right of Death over the Captive, with the Views of the Ablest Writers of Past Times, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Mirabeau, &c. The Treatment of Prisoners of War by the Rebels contrasted with Usages of Civilized Nations. Regulations of the United States. Letter of General Butler on the Exchange of Prisoners. Complicity of Jeff Davis, &c., &c._ 142-194

BOOK EIGHTH.

_Review of the Physical and Moral Causes,--Climatological, Ethnological, Social, &c.,--that have led to the Degeneration of the White Race in the South, and the consequent Degree of Perversity and Barbarity, &c._ 194-242

APPENDIX.

_Notes. Statistical Tables. General Orders of the United States in Reference to Treatment of their Prisoners._ 243-254