Prison Life in Dixie

It is not claimed that this story gives a full and perfect history of the sufferings of the Union prisoners in the South during the Civil War. The writer has endeavored to furnish such descriptions and incidents that give the reader a true picture of Rebel prisons and the means and methods of either surviving or dying in them. The author describes his harrowing capture and imprisonment by the Rebels at Sumter Prison a.k.a. “Andersonville Prison Pen”. Renowned as one of the worst prisons of the C