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Bibliography: Civil War Prisoner Diaries/Memoirs

 

Civil War Prisoner Diaries/Memoirs and Other Readings

Boaz, Thomas M. Libby Prison and Beyond: A Union Staff Officer in the East, 1862-1865. White Mane Publishing Co., 1999.

Braun, Herman. Andersonville, An Object Lesson on Protection. Milwaukee, 1892.

Burson, William. A Race for Liberty: or My Capture, Imprisonment, and Escape. Wellsville, Ohio, 1867.

Copley, John M. A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn.; with Reminiscences of Camp Douglas. Austin, 1893.

Forbes, Eugene. Diary of a Soldier, and Prisoner of War in the Rebel Prisons. Trenton, 1865.

Gooding, James Henry (Author), Adams, Virginia M. (Editor). On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front. University of Massachusetts, 1999.

Kellogg, Robert H. Life and Death in Rebel Prisons. Hartford, 1865.

King, John H. Three Hundred Days in a Yankee Prison, Reminiscences of War, Life, Captivity, Imprisonment at Camp Chase, Ohio. Atlanta, 1904.

King, John R. My Experience in the Confederate Army and in Northern Prisons. Clarksburg, WV, 1917.

Maile, John L. "Prison Life in Andersonville" With Special Reference to the Opening of Providence Spring. Los Angeles, 1912.

Mosher, Charles. Charlie Mosher's Civil War. Longstreet House, 1994.

Ransom, John. John Ransom's Andersonville Diary. Berkley Publishing Co., 1963.

Roberts, Edward F. Andersonville Journey, The True Story. Burd Street Press, 1998.

Robins, Glenn. They have left us here to die : the Civil War prison diary of Sgt. Lyle Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry. Kent State University Press, 2011.

Smith, W. B. On Wheels and How I Came There. New York, 1893.

Smith, Charles M. From Andersonville to Freedom. Providence, 1894.

Sprague, Homer B. Light and Shadows in Confederate Prisons. New York, 1915.

Styple, William, et al. Andersonville: Giving Up the Ghost. A Collection of Prisoners' Diaries, Letters and Memoirs. Kearny, NJ: Belle Grove Publishing, 1996.

Did You Know?

Drawing of a barbershop inside the Andersonville prison

Inside the Andersonville prison was a vibrant free market economy. Prisoner George Fechtner recounted that, “there were a number of barber shops there where men could get shaved, their hair cut and whiskers dyed, and some of them carried on the doctoring business. They would buy their dyeing articles to work with, their soap and other things, from new arrivals.” Other prisoners operated stores, sold firewood, and repaired clothes and shoes.