Category: Biographies
The writer of the following narrative feels justified in calling attention to his military record in order that he may be furnished with a warrant for inviting the attention of readers to the matters herein described. Broadly speaking, his record is that he saw nearly four yea...
At the age of thirteen, the writer attended a series of religious meetings and became profoundly convicted of his obligation to accept Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. Lack...
3. CHAPTER III.The least that can be said of the prison sustenance is that it was exceedingly slim. But while the _per diem_ rations dealt out to an Andersonville prisoner were too small for p...
7. CHAPTER VII.A profound conviction has been cherished by many that the unsealing of Providence Spring was as marked an interposition of the hand of the Almighty as that recorded in the Book...
9. CHAPTER IX.One of the principal mansions was owned by a Dr. Wright who had fled with his family on the approach of the Union troops. His fine residence was converted into a hospital for th...
4. CHAPTER IV.If the food supply of Andersonville was bad, the water supply was worse. To understand the situation and to see how little was done to overcome the difficulties involved, and to...
2. CHAPTER II.At the time of our incarceration in Andersonville, the crisis of the war of the rebellion was reached. General Grant was fighting the great battles of the Wilderness in Virginia...
1. CHAPTER I.The writer of the following narrative feels justified in calling attention to his military record in order that he may be furnished with a warrant for inviting the attention of...
8. CHAPTER VIII.[3]At a point on the Cape Fear river, about ten miles from Wilmington, N. C., a trainload of old Andersonville prisoners who had been confined also at Florence, S. C., and Salis...
6. CHAPTER VI.On Friday morning an ominous stillness pervaded nature. By the middle of the forenoon a dense, dark cloud was noticed in the southwest quarter of the horizon, slowly creeping up...
5. CHAPTER V.The bitter cry which arose from the suffering camp was changed on the lips of a few to an appeal to heaven. Where else could men look in their dire extremity? One evening early...