A Perfect Picture of Hell: Eyewitness Accounts by Civil War Prisoners from the 12th Iowa

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index Place names and military units are sorted according to state. Italicized entries are illustrations. Alabama: Bellefont Landing, 103, 162; Cahaba, 4, 31, 63, 238, 241, 243, 247, 248, 257; Demopolis, 203; Huntsville, 99, 103, 104, 105, 120, 143, 162, 163; Mobile, 31, 47, 53, 57, 63, 64, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 74, 75, 76, 78, 89, 98, 101, 102, 110, 115, 132, 134, 145, 146, 242, 246, 247, 257; Montgomery, 10, 11, 12, 13, 31, 53, 63, 64, 67, 68, 71, 73, 75, 85, 86, 89, 96, 98, 101, 108, 110, 111, 135, 139, 145, 146, 159, 203, 248, 259, 260; Selma, 63, 67, 71, 82, 83, 98, 115, 135; Talladega , 67, 82, 110, 111, 115, 136, 139, 156; Tuscaloosa, 14, 58, 62, 84, 89 Alabama River, 5, 31, 53, 55, 58, 63, 78, 80, 81, 98, 135, 203, 238, 242, 245, 247 Alabama unit: 44th Infantry, 139 Allcock, Thomas R., 276 Andersonville prison, 4, 5, 251, 252; accounts of, 6–7, 14, 246–256, 262–279; compared to other prisons, 115, 135, 138; see also Georgia: Andersonville Andrews, Hiram R., 237, 246, 247 Andrews, James J., 160 artillery, see weapons: artillery Atlanta prison, 103, 111, 146, 147 Ayers, Lyman M., 27, 60, 61 Ayers, Parker, 27 { 329 } Baker, James, 249 Ballier, John F., 276 Barnes, Dr. W. A., 267 Barr, Thomas, 56 Bates, Dr. John C., 267, 268, 271 battles: Corinth, 168, 169–180; Iuka, 174, 175; Jackson, 191– 194, 195–197; Nashville, 14, 259; Shiloh, 16–23, 25–28, 29, 46, 65–66, 87–88, 92–95; 126– 129; Spanish Fort, 259; Tupelo, 2, 218, 219, 222, 223, 225–233, 246–247, 257 Beauregard, Pierre G. T., 28, 55, 65, 70, 102, 113, 142 Beck, Samuel C., 11, 14; near death of, 42–45 Belle Isle prison, 4, 10; account of, 206–217; compared to other prisons, 115, 135, 138 Benton Barracks, 1, 12, 13, 19, 52, 54, 63, 164, 166, 167, 186, 191, 256 Black River, 193, 213, 242 Black Warrior River, 58, 89 Blair, Frank P., Jr., 165 Blanchard, Allen M., 10, 169; account of imprisonment, 178– 187; wounded, 166, 176 Bliss, William S., official report of shooting, 105–106, 107–109; shooting of, 13, 47, 70–72, 100– 101 Bonneville, Benjamin L. E., 164, 165 Boughton, Judson L., 56, 60, 63, 64, 233 Bragg, Braxton, 65, 96 Bragg, Edward S., 274, 275 Breckenridge, John C., 4, 274 Brennan, Patrick, 163 Brodtbeck, Samuel D., 172 Brown, John J., 95 Brown, Richard H., 164, 165 Brownlow, William G., 59 Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 70, 142 Buell, Don Carlos, 70, 72, 105 Bunn, Andrew J., 17 Burch, John W., 163 Burch, Sylvester R., 60, 61 Burdick, Augustus A., 228, 229 Butler, Benjamin F., 3, 4, 103 Buttolph, Edwin A., 10, 14, 60, 164, 219; prison account 233–242 Byrnes, John H., 78, 82 Cahaba prison, 4, 5, 6, 15, 31, 63, 86, 239; Buttolph account, 238– 242; De Vine account, 243–245; Cotes account, 246–248; discussed at Wirz trial, 260; see also Alabama: Cahaba Calder, Edward W., 176 Camp Chase, 4, 12 Camp Douglas, 15, 38, 186, 235 Camp Jackson, 12, 163 Camp Montgomery, 172, 173, 175 Camp Oglethorpe, 10, 32, 248, 249 Camp Parole, 4, 12, 51, 166 Camp Sumter, 4 Camp Union, 1 Campbell, John A., 273 Castle Morgan, 243–245, 245, 247, 257 Castle Thunder, 166, 205, 212 Chalmers, James R., 234 Chandler, Daniel T., 272, 273, 274 Chilton, Robert H., 273 Chipman, Norton P., 6, 276 Clark, Benjamin A., 84 330 { index } Clark, Emery, 14, 231, 247, 248, 250, 251, 256–258 Clark, Isaac G., 177 Clarkson, Richard P., 123 Clendenen, Thomas, 66, 82, 83 Clough, Alpheus Waver, 231 Cobb, Howell, 275 Cole, John D., 172, 174, 177 Collins, Charles P., 66 Collins, William H., 72, 73, 78 Comstock, G. Erwin, xvi, 10, 11, 14, 123; account of helping Beck, 42–45; Belle Isle prison, 195– 217 cooking, 45, 48, 53–54; in dutch oven, 19, 38, 117, 161 Coolidge, Franklin W., 195, 201, 204, 215 Cooper, Samuel, 273 Corinth, Battle of, 168, 169–180; see also Mississippi: Corinth Cosby, George Blake, 199 Cotes, J. Warren, 10, 14, 243; Andersonville prison, 246–256; report of Emery Clark’s death, 257–258 Coulter, John P., 173 Crabb, Benjamin, 83 Crittenden, Thomas J., 149 Crosby, James M., 78, 82 Crowhurst, Seth Jones, xvi, 46–54 Cumberland River, 19, 126, 164 Curtis, Henry C., 42 Curtis, Samuel R., 167, 276 Davies, Thomas A., 172...