John Ransom's Civil War diary : notes from inside Andersonville, the Civil War's most notorious prison /
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| Author / Creator: | Ransom, John L., author. |
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| Uniform title: | Andersonville diary |
| Edition: | Dover edition. |
| Imprint: | Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2017. |
| Description: | 220 pages ; 21 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11004378 |
| Related Items: | Reproduction of (manifestation):
Andersonville diary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Capture
- A Rebel Ruse to Gobble Up Union Troops
- A Complete Surprise
- Careless Officers
- Heroic Defence
- Beginning of a Long Imprisonment
- 2. New Year'S DAY
- And the Place it Finds Us
- Apples to Eat and an Old Comrade Joins Us
- Matters Getting Worse, with Occasional Rumors of Exchange
- 3. Pemberton Building
- A Good-bye to Belle Isle
- Good Place to be Moved From
- Astor House Mess on its Travels
- New Scenes
- The Raid on Richmond and Consequent Scare
- All's Well, if it Ends Well
- Men Shot
- 4. Andersonville
- Arrival at the Worst of all Prisons
- Beginning of a Summer that Killed Thirteen Thousand Men
- Bad Water, Bad Food, and Most Inhuman Treatment
- In the Clutches of Wirtz and His Picked Out Rebel Aids
- The Truth and Nothing but the Truth
- A Season of Intense Suffering
- 5. From Bad to Worse
- The Astor House Mess Still Holds Together, Although Depleted
- All More or Less Diseased
- As the Weather gets Warmer the Death Rate Increases
- Dying Off Like Sheep
- The End is Not Yet
- 6. The Raiders Put Down
- Andersonville on Its Metal
- Leading Raiders Arrested, Tried and Hung
- Great Excitement for a Few Days, Followed by Good Order
- Death Rate Increases, However
- The Astor House Mess as Policemen
- 7. Moved Just in Time
- Removed from Andersonville to the Marine Hospital, Savannah
- Getting Through the Gate
- Battese has Saved Us
- Very Sick, But by no Means Dead Yet-
- Better and Humane Treatment
- 8. Hospital Life
- A Gradual Improvement in Health
- Good Treatment Which is Opportune
- Parting With Relics to Buy Luxuries
- Daly, the Teamster at Andersonville, Killed
- A Visit From Battese, the Indian
- 9. Removed to Millen
- Another Change, and not a Bad One
- Almost a Hostage of War
- Election Day, and a Vote for Little Mac
- One Year a Prisoner of War
- 10. Escape, but not Escape
- Moved from Camp Lawton After a Sojourn of Twenty Days
- Destination Blackshear, Georgia
- Jump Off the Cars and Out from Rebel Guard for Six Days
- A Hungry Time, hut a Good One
- Captured and Make the Acquaintance of Two Other Runaways, with whom I Cast My Fortunes
- 11. Re-Captured
- Home Guards Gobble Me Up
- Well Treated and Well Fed
- Taken to Doctortown and From Thence to Blackshear
- The Two Buck Boys as Runaways
- Ride on a Passenger Train Prospects Ahead
- 12. A Successful Escape
- Jump Off the Cars Near Savannah
- Find Friendly Negroes
- Travel by Night and Rest by Day-Good Times with Many Adventures
- A Morning Bath
- Almost Run into Rebel Pickets
- 13. Safe and Sound
- Once More See the Old Flag and the Boys in Blue
- Mr. Kimball qnd Mrs. Dickinson Recompensed
- Find the Ninth Michigan Cavalry
- Interviewed by Gen'l Kilpatrick
- All Right at Last
- 14. What Became of the Boys
- A Brief Description of What Became of the Boys
- Refused Permission to go Home
- A Reference to Capt. Wirtz
- Return Home at the End of the War
- Addenda
- Michael Hoare's Escape
- Rebel Testimony
- Summary
- What Became of John Ransom
