Andersonville Diary - Escape - With List of the Dead - Couverture souple

Ransom, John L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 158218450X ISBN 13 : 9781582184500

Editeur : Digital Scanning,US, 2003

Synopsis

John Ransom's Andersonville Diary is a first hand account of life in one of the most infamous prisons in U.S. wartime history. This book is the diary of John Ransom, a Union soldier who served time in the Andersonville Prison Pen. Ransom provides an insiders view of the hellish conditions endured by the men imprisoned there. The entries were originally published in the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen.

This volume includes a chapter of Rebel Testimony, given during the trial of Maj. Henry Wirz, the camp commander. There is also a list of those who died during their imprisonment. The deceased are listed alphabetically by state with the full name, Company, Regiment, date of death and the number on the headstone in the cemetery.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

One of the most starkly vivid and detailed accounts of survival in Georgia's notorious Andersonville prison during the American Civil War. John Ransom was only 20 years old at the time of his capture. He kept a nearly daily diary during his year of misery at the Confederate prison. He and his fellow Union prisoners endured lice, starvation, freezing cold, killing heat, theft from other inmates...and Captain Wirtz. "Capt. Wirtz very domineering and abusive. Is afraid to come into camp any more. There are a thousand men in here who would willingly die if they could kill him first." Death was a daily occurrence. Yet Ransom knew if he gave up hope, he would die. He somehow kept his humor and kept on writing. Through two escapes, time in a Rebel hospital, and eventual freedom, you'll read a POW account like none you've ever read before. During one escape, he vowed, "Shall print this diary and make my everlasting fortune, and when wealthy will visit this country and make every negro who has helped us millionaires."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Digital Scanning,US
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 158218450X
• ISBN 13: 9781582184500
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible