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CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Editors’ Note xiii Prologue 1 captured at shiloh, april 6, 1862 Eyewitness Account John H. Stibbs, Company D Account of Surrender at Shiloh 25 Prison Accounts: Enlisted Men Charles L. Sumbardo, Company I Incidents of Prison Life 29 George Erwin Comstock, Company C Reminiscences of S. C. Beck in Prison Life 42 Seth Jones Crowhurst, Company E Reminiscences of a Union Soldier 46 Letter: October 24, 1862 51 Letter: November 5, 1862 52 Bryon P. Zuver, Company D Prisoner of War 55 Prison Accounts: Lieutenants Luther W. Jackson, Company H A Prison Diary 65 John W. Gift, Company F Speech Delivered in Delhi, Iowa, November 1862 87 Joseph B. Dorr, Company I Journal of My Imprisonment in the Rebellion 92 Letter: June 11, 1862 105 Letter: July 16, 1862 107 Prison Accounts: Officers John H. Stibbs, Company D An Account of Southern Prisons 110 An Open Letter 123 Edward M. Van Duzee, Company I Incidents of Prison Life in 1862 126 William W. Warner, Company C Letter: April 29, 1862 156 Letter: May 23, 1862 157 Letter: May 28, 1862 158 Letter: June 13, 1862 159 Release and Parole Erastus B. Soper, Company D Paroled Prisoners from Macon, Georgia, to St. Louis 160 captured at corinth, october 3, 1862 Eyewitness Account Erastus B. Soper, Company D Excerpts from the ‘‘History of Company D, 12th Iowa’’ 175 Prison Account Allen M. Blanchard, Company D Reminiscences of the Capture and Detention of Allen M. Blanchard, as a Prisoner of War 178 captured at jackson, july 11, 1863 Prison Account George Erwin Comstock, Company C A Prison Diary 195 captured at tupelo, july 13 and 15, 1864 Eyewitness Accounts Frederick Humphrey, Chaplain The 12th Iowa at the Battle of Tupelo: Letter from an Eye Witness 225 William L. Henderson, Company C Letter: July 21, 1864 230 Prison Accounts Edwin A. Buttolph, Company D Reminiscences of the Second Capture of Edwin A. Buttolph on July 13, 1864, and His Detention in Rebel Prisons: Prepared by Himself 233 John De Vine, Company I An Account of Castle Morgan, Cahaba 243 J. Warren Cotes, Company I A Brief Account of the Experience in Captivity of the Men Captured at Tupelo, July 15th, 1864 246 An Open Letter 257 Epilogue 259 John H. Stibbs Andersonville and the Trial of Henry Wirz 262 Biographies of Individuals Mentioned in the Accounts 281 Notes 311 Literature Cited 323 Index 329 ...

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