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I.A strange land ; The heart of the Appalachians ; The gateway of an empire ; A sequestered vale, and a primitive, Arcadian, non-progressive people -- II. Scarcity of food for the army ; Raid for forage ; Encounter with the Rebels ; Sharp cavalry fight ; Defeat of the "Johnnies" ; Powell's Valley opened up -- 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 a soldier's bed -- IV. A bitter cold morning and a warm awakening ; Trouble all along the line ; Fierce conflicts, assaults and defense ; Prolonged and desperate struggle, ending with a surrender -- V. The reaction ; Depression ; Biting cold ; Sharp hunger and sad reflection -- VI. "On to Richmond!" ; Marching on foot over the mountains ; My horse has a new rider ; Unsophisticated mountain girls ; discussing the issues of the war ; Parting with Hiatoga -- VII. Entering Richmond ; Disappointment at its appearance ; Everybody in uniform ; Curled darlings of the capital ; The Rebel flag ; Libby Prison ; Dick Turner ; Searching the new comers -- VIII. Introduction to prison life ; The Pemberton Building and its occupants ; Neat sailors ; Roll call ; Rations and clothing ; Chivalric "confiscation" -- IX. Beans or peas ; Insufficiency of darky testimony ; A guard kills a prisoner ; Prisoners tease the guards ; Desperate outbreak -- X. The exchange and the cause of its interruption ; Brief resume of the different cartels, and the difficulties that led to their suspension -- XI. Putting in the time ; Rations ; Cooking utensils ; "Fiat" soup ; "Spooning" ; African newspaper venders ; Trading greenbacks for Confederate money ; Visit from John Morgan -- XII. Remarks as to nomenclature ; Vaccination and its effects ; "N'Yaarker's," their characteristics, and their methods of operating -- XIII. Belle Isle ; Terrible suffering from cold and hunger ; Fate of Lieutenant Boisseux's dog ; Our company mystery ; Termination of all hopes of its solution -- XIV. Hoping for exchange ; An exposition of the doctrine of chances ; Off for Andersonville ; Uncertainty as to our destination ; Arrival at Andersonville -- XV. Georgia ; A lean and hungry land ; Difference between upper and lower Georgia ; The village of Andersonville -- XVI. Waking up in Andersonville ; Some description of the place ; Our first mail ; Building shelter ; Gen. Winder ; Himself and lineage -- XVII. The plantation Negros ; Not too stupid to be loyal ; Their dithyrambic music ; Copperhead opinion of Longfellow -- XVIII. Schemes and plans to escape ; Scaling the stockade ; Establishing the dead line ; The first man killed -- XIX. Capt. Henri Wirz ; Some description of a small-minded personage, who gained great notoriety ; First experiences with his disciplinary method -- XX. Prize-fight among the N'Yaarkers ; A great many formalities, and little blood spilt ; A futile attempt to recover a watch ; Defeat of the Law and Order Party

XXI. Diminishing rations ; A deadly cold rain ; Hovering over pitch pine fires ; Increase of mortality ; A theory of health -- XXII. Differences between Alabamians and Georgians ; Death of "Poll Parrott" ; A good joke upon the guard ; A brutal rascal -- XXIII. A new lot of prisoners ; The Battle of Oolustee ; Men sacrificed to a general's incompentency ; A hoodlum re-inforcement ; A queer crowd ; Mistreatment of an officer of a colored regiment ; Killing the sergeant of a Negro squad -- XXIV. April ; Longing to get out ; The death rate ; The plague of lice ; The so-called hospital -- XXV. The "Plymouth Pilgrims" ; Sad transition from comfortable barracks to Andersonville ; A crazed Pennsylvanian ; Development of the sutler business -- XXVI. Longings for God's country ; Considerations of the methods of getting there ; Exchange and escape ; Digging tunnels, and the difficulties connected therewith ; Punishment of a traitor -- XXVII. The hounds, and the difficulties they put in the way of escape ; The whole South patrolled by them -- XXVIII. May ; Influx of new prisoners ; Disparity in numbers between the eastern and western armies ; Terrible crowding ; Slaughter of men at the creek -- XXIX. Some distinction between soldier's duty and murder ; A plot to escape ; It is revealed and frustrated -- XXX. June ; Possibilities of a murderous cannonade ; What was proposed to be done in that event ; A false alarm ; Deterioration of the rations ; Fearful increase of mortality -- XXXI. Dying by inches ; Seitz, the slow, and his death ; Stiggall and Emerson ; Ravages of the scurvy -- XXXII. "Ole Boo," and "Ole Sol, the Haymaker" ; A fetid, burning desert ; Noisome water, and the effects of drinking it ; Stealing soft soap -- XXXIII. "Pour passer le temps" ; A set of chessmen procured under difficulties ; Religious services ; The devoted priest ; War song -- XXXIV. Maggots, lice and raiders ; Practices of these human vermin ; Plundering the sick and dying ; Night attacks, and battles by day ; Hard times for the small traders -- XXXV. A community without government ; Formation of the Regulators ; Raiders attack key but are bluffed off ; Assault of the Regulators on the Raiders ; Desperate battle ; Overthrow of the Raiders -- XXXVI. Why the Regulators were not assisted by the entire camp ; Peculiarities of boys from different sections ; Hunting the Raiders down ; Exploits of my left-handed lieutenant ; Running the gauntlet -- XXXVII. The execution ; Building the scaffold ; Doubts of the camp ; Captain Wirz thinks it is probably a ruse to force the stockade ; His preparations against such an attempt ; Entrance of the doomed ones ; They realize their fate ; One makes a desperate effort to escape ; His re-capture ; Intense excitement ; Wirz orders the guns to open ; Fortunately they do not ; The six are hanged ; One breaks his rope ; Scene when the Raiders are cut down -- XXXVIII. After the execution ; Formation of a police force ; Its first chief ; "Spanking" an offender -- XXXIX. July ; The prison becomes more crowded, the weather hotter, rations poorer, and mortality greater ; Some of the phenomena of suffering and death -- XL. The battle of the 22d of July ; The Army of the Tennessee assaulted front and rear ; Death of General McPherson ; Assumption of command by General Logan ; Result of the battle

XLI. Clothing : its rapid deterioration, and devices to replenish it ; Desperate efforts to cover nakedness ; "Little Red Cap" and his letter -- XLII. Some features of the mortality ; Percentage of deaths to those living ; An average man only stands the misery three months ; Description of the prison and the condition of the men therein, by a leading scientific man of the South -- XLIII. Difficulty of exercising ; Embarrassments of a morning walk ; The Rialto of the prison ; Cursing the Southern Confederacy ; The story of the Battle of Spottsylvania Court House -- XLIV. Rebel music ; Singular lack of the creative power among the Southerners ; Contrast with similar people elsewhere ; Their favorite music, and where it was borrowed from ; A fifer with one tune -- XLV. August ; Needles stuck in pumpkin seeds ; Some phenomena of starvation ; Rioting in remembered luxuries -- XLVI. A surly Briton ; The stolid courage that makes the English flag a banner of triumph ; Our company bugler, his characteristics and his death ; Urgent demand for mechanics ; None want to go ; Treatment of a Rebel shoemaker ; Enlargement of the stockade ; It is broken by a storm ; The wonderful spring -- XLVII. "Sick call," and the scenes that accompanied it ; Mustering the lame, halt and diseased at the South Gate ; An unusually bad case ; Going out to the hospital ; Accommodation and treatment of the patients there ; The horrible suffering in the gangrene ward ; Bungling amputations by blundering practitioners ; Affection between a sailor and his ward ; Death of my comrade -- XLVIII. Determination to escape ; Different plans and their merits ; I prefer the Appalachicola route ; Preparations for departure ; A hot day ; The fence passed successfully ; Pursued by the hounds ; Caught ; Returned to the stockade -- XLIX. August ; Good luck in not meeting Captain Wirz ; That worthy's treatment of recaptured prisoners ; Secret societies in prison ; Singular meeting and its result ; Discovery and removal of the officers among the enlisted men -- L. Food ; Its meagerness, inferior quality, and terrible sameness ; Rebel testimony on the subject ; Futility of successful explanation -- LI. Solicitude as to the fate of Atlanta and Sherman's Army ; Paucity of news ; How we heard that Atlanta had fallen ; Announcement of a general exchange ; We leave Andersonville -- LII. Savannah ; Devices to obtain materials for a tent ; Their ultimate success ; Resumption of tunneling ; Escaping by wholesale and being re-captured en masse ; The obtacles that lay between us and our lines -- LIII. Frank Beaverstock's attempt at escape ; Passing off as a Rebel boy he reaches Griswoldville by rail, and then strikes across the country for Sherman, but is caught within twenty miles of our lines -- LIV. Savannah proves to be a change for the better ; Escape from the brats of guards ; Comparison between Wirz and Davis ; A brief interval of good rations ; Winder, the man with the evil eye ; The disloyal work of a shyster -- LV. Why we were hurried out of Andersonville ; The effect of the fall of Atlanta ; Our longing to hear the news ; Arrival of some fresh fish ; How we knew they were western boys ; Difference in the appearance of the soldiers of the two armies -- LVI. What caused the fall of Atlanta ; A dissertation upon an important psychological problem ; The Battle of Jonesboro ; Why it was fought ; How Sherman deceived Hood ; A desperate bayonet charge, and the only successful one in the Atlanta Campaign ; A gallant colonel and how he died ; The heroism of some enlisted men ; Going calmly certain death -- LVII. A fair sacrifice ; The story of one boy who willingly gave his young life for his country -- LVIII. We leave Savannah ; More hopes of exchange ; Scenes at departure ; "Flankers" ; On the back track toward Andersonville ; Alarm thereat ; At the parting of two ways ; We finally bring up at Camp Lawton -- LIX. Our new quarters at Camp Lawton ; Building a hut ; An exceptional commandant ; He is a good man, but will take bribes ; Rations -- LX. The Raiders re-appear in the scene ; The attempt to assassinate those who were concerned in the execution ; A couple of lively fights, in which the Raiders are defeated ; Holding an election

LXI. The rebels formally propose to us to desert to them ; Contumelious treatment of the proposition ; Their rage ; An exciting time ; An outbreak threatened ; Difficulties attending desertion to the Rebels -- LXII. Sergeant Leroy L. Key ; His adventures subsequent to the execution ; He goes outside at Andersonville on parole ; Labors in the cookhouse ; Attempts to escape ; Is re-captured and taken to Macon ; Escapes from there, but is compelled to return ; Is finally exchanged at Savannah -- LXIII. Dreary weather ; The cold rains distress all and kill hundreds ; Exchange of ten thousand sick ; Captain Bowes turns a pretty, but not very honest, penny -- LXIV. Another removal ; Sherman's advance scares the Rebels into running us away from Millen ; We are taken to Savannah, and thence down the Atlantic and Gulf Road to Blackshear -- LXV. Blackshear and Pierce County ; We take up new quarters, but are called out for exchanges ; Excitement over signing the parole ; A happy journey to Savannah ; Grievous disappointment -- LXVI. A specimen conversation with an average native Georgian ; We learn that Sherman is heading for Savannah ; The reserves get a little setting down -- LXVII. Off to Charleston ; Passing through the rice swamps ; Two extremes of society ; Entry into Charleston ; Leisurely warfare ; Shelling the city at regular intervals ; We camp in a mass of ruins ; Departure for Florence -- LXVIII. First days at Florence ; Introduction to Lieutenant Barrett, the red-headed keeper ; A brief description of our new quarters ; Winder's malign influence manifest -- XLIX. Barrett's insane cruelty ; How he punished those alleged to be engaged in tunneling ; The misery in the stockade ; Men's limbs rotting off with dry gangrene -- LXX. House and clothes ; Efforts to erect a suitable residence ; Difficulties attending this ; Varieties of Florentine architecture ; Waiting for dead men's clothes ; Craving for tobacco -- LXXI. December ; Rations of wood and food grow less daily ; Uncertainty as to the mortality at Florence ; Even the governor's statistics are very deficient ; Care for the sick -- LXXII. Dull winter days ; Too weak and too stupid to amuse ourselves ; Attempts of the Rebels to recruit us into their army ; The class of men they obtained ; Vengeance on "the galvanized" ; A singular experience ; Rare glimpses of fun ; Inability of the Rebels to count -- LXXIII. Christmas, and the way it was passed ; The daily routine of ration drawing ; Some peculiarities of living and dying -- LXXIV. New Year's day ; Death of John H. Winder ; He dies on his way to a dinner ; Something as to character and career ; One of the worst men that ever lived -- LXXV. One instance of a successful escape ; The adventures of Sergeant Walter Hartsough, of Company K, Sixteenth Illinois Cavalry ; He gets away from the Rebels at Thomasville, and after a toilsome and dangerous journey of several hundred miles, reaches our lines in Florida -- LXXVI. The peculiar type of insanity prevalent at Florence ; Barrett's wantonness of cruelty ; We learn of Sherman's advances into South Carolina ; The Rebels begin moving the prisoners away ; Andrews and I change our tactics, and stay behind ; Arrival of five prisoners from Sherman's command ; Their unbounded confidence in Sherman's success, and its beneficial effect upon us -- LXXVII. Fruitless waiting for Sherman ; We leave Florence ; Intelligence of the fall of Wilmington communicated to us by a slave ; The turpentine region of North Carolina ; We come upon a Rebel line of battle ; Yankees at both ends of the road -- LXXVIII. Return to Florence and a short sojourn there ; Off toward Wilmington again ; Cribbing a Rebel officer's lunch ; Signs of approaching our lines ; Terror of our rascally guards ; Entrance into God's country at last -- LXXIX. Getting used to freedom ; Delights of a land where there is enough of everything ; First glimpse of the old flag ; Wilmington and its history ; Lieutenant Cushing ; First acquaintance with the colored troops ; Leaving for home ; Destruction of the "Thorn" by a torpedo ; The Mock Monitor's achievement -- LXXX. Visit to Fort Fisher, and inspection of that stronghold ; The way it was captured ; Out on the ocean sailing ; Terribly sea sick ; Rapid recovery ; Arrival at Annapolis ; Washed, clothed and fed ; Unbounded luxury, and days of unadulterated happiness

LXXXI. Religious life and work in Andersonville ; How captured ; Impressions on reaching the prison ; How treated ; Longing for religious companions ; Notes from day to day ; Coadjutors in organizing prayer meetings ; Brutal treatment of the sick by Rebels ; Meager rations, etc. -- LXXXII. Captain Wirz, the only one of the prison-keepers punished ; His arrest, trial and execution -- LXXXIII. The responsibility ; Who was to blame for all the misery ; An examination of the flimsy excuses made for the Rebels ; One document that convicts them ; What is desired

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