Prison order Life in the South 1865 A.O Abbott Civil War POW Experiences ~ Libby Prison Andersonville Macon Columbia Charleston South Carolina

Title: Prison Life in the South: Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsborough, and Andersonville, during the years 1864 and 1865

Author: A. O. [Allen Osgood] Abbott, Late Lieutenant First New York Dragoons

Description: Ex-library (non circulating). In a maroon cloth library rebind with gilt lettering on spine. Title page and illustrated plates have a pin-hole library stamp. Thirty-three illustrations (nine on plates, including the tissue-guarded frontispiece). x, 374, plus [10] publisher's advertising. Memoirs of Civil War imprisonment in the POW camps of the Confederate Army. Written by Allen Osgood Abbott (1834-1885), a native Portageville, New York. The account is based on his own experience as a prisoner, as well as on those of several other officers, some of the details having been smuggled out in secret diaries.

Includes an appendix containing details on more than 1500 officers confined at Columbia, South Carolina (including name, rank, regiment, dat, place of capture, and post-office address).

Contents:

[I] Capture, and Arrival at Libby Prison.
[II] In Libby.
[III] From Libby to Macon, Georgia.
[IV] At Macon, Georgia.
[V] At Savannah, Georgia.
[VI] At Charleston, South Carolina.
[VII] At Columbia, South Carolina-Camp Sorghum.
[VIII] At Columbia, South Carolina-Asylum Prison.
[IX] Homeward order Bound.
[X] At Andersonville (by Ira E. Forbes, Corporal 16th Connecticut Volunteers.
[XI] Among the Negroes (by H. B. Seeley, Adjutant 86th New York Volunteers).
[XII] In Search of Liberty (by a Major of the New York Volunteers).
[XIII] In the Hospital near Charleston, South Carolina (by A. F. Tipton, Lieutenant, 8th Iowa Cavalry).
[XIV] An Adventure (by F. Miurphy, Lieutenant, 94th New York Volunteers).
[XV] In the Cell at Libby (by A. C. Litchfield, Lieutenant Colonel, 7th Michigan Cavalry).
[XVI] Escaped and Recaptured (by Professor J. Ogden, Lieutenant, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry).
[XVII] Five Weeks among the Loyal League at Charleston, South Carolina (by W. H. Telford, Captain, 50th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers).
[XVIII] Rebel Barbarities (from Harper's Weekly).
[Appendix].

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Place: New York
Year: 1865

Keywords: prisoner of war, POW, Civil War, Libby Prison, South Carolina, Andersonville, Camp Sorghum, 1st New York Dragoons,