In vinculis, or, The prisoner of war : being, the experience of a Rebel in two federal pens, interspersed with reminiscences of the late war ; anecdotes of southern generals, etc. / by a Virginia Confederate
IN VINCULIS -- OR THE PRISONER OF WAR -- PREFACE. -- CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER I. -- Absit omen. -- Cavalry advancing. -- To the front. -- Choice of weapons. -- Company E, Twelfth Virginia Infantry, A. N. V -- CHAPTER II. -- The battle opens. -- The first charge repulsed. -- Artillery coming to help us. -- Overpowered. -- A prisoner. -- CHAPTER III. -- The advance checked. -- Gilmore fails. -- Marching off. -- An escape. -- At Kautz's quarters. -- First prison feed. -- An interview with the general. -- CHAPTER IV. -- Beast Butler. -- CHAPTER V. -- To Bermuda Hundreds. -- Black guard. -- Awful swearing. -- A cold night. -- Down the river. -- Prison thieves. -- Andersonville and Wirz. -- Leaving Fortress Monroe. -- Maryland. -- CHAPTER VI. -- Point Lookout. -- A brute. -- The Pen. -- Lyon's Den. -- A friend in need. -- The demoralization of prison-life. -- CHAPTER VII. -- Order of exorcises. -- Fabrications of the Sanitary Commission. -- History of the pen. -- Official clothes thieves. -- The guards. -- Black guards again. -- CHAPTER VIII. -- Shelter at Point Lookout. -- Cracker-box houses. -- A prison adventure -- Prison ingenuity. -- The washerwomen. -- Contributions to prisoners. -- The war a people's war. -- A woman. -- A loyal negro. -- CHAPTER IX. -- Black patriots on the rampage. -- Major Weymouth's inspection. -- Foul water. -- Columbia. -- Rumored capture of Petersburg. -- Peculiar costume. -- The rationale of rations. -- CHAPTER X. -- Officers moving. -- Negro insolence. -- Fires out across the deadline. -- Improvising furniture. -- Designs on a "nail kag." -- Negro regiment to the front. -- A new prison at Elmira. -- The Fourth of July in vinculis. -- Noble Maryland. -- CHAPTER XI. -- More arrivals. -- The sinking of the Alabama. -- "Miss Gilbert's Career. -- Old Jubal after the Suabians. -- A disagreeable order. -- Working details
Changing quarters. -- CHAPTER XII. -- Deliverance against sea-going. -- A disgusting trip. -- A Good Samaritan. -- Nectar. -- New York harbor. -- On the Erie Railroad. -- Sympathizers. -- At Elmira. -- El Cid anathematized -- CHAPTER XIII. -- Statistics of Elmira Pen. -- The officers. -- Samples of Federal cruelty. -- Number of prisoners. -- Barrack accommodations. -- CHAPTER XIV. -- Matters medical. -- Sanger the sanguinary. -- Rebel doctors. -- Cruel neglect of the sick. -- Deaths at Elmira and Andersonville contrasted. -- The Commissary Department. -- Punishments. -- CHAPTER XV. -- De minimis. -- Withstanding temptation. -- The author seeking office. -- And getting it. -- CHAPTER XVI. -- Arcadian experience. -- A terrible accident. -- Neglect of the victims. -- A note from Madam Ik Marvel. -- An observatory. -- Loyalty and sight-seeing. -- Preaching in camp. -- The campaign in a diagram. -- A reminiscence of Jeb Stuart. -- The negroes on guard. -- Petersburg in flames. -- Heavy eating. -- Chess. -- CHAPTER XVII. -- Sermons. -- A political bloodhound of Zion. -- Clothing proscribed. -- Disgusting obscenity. -- The Tallahassee. -- A comrade dies. -- A contraband. -- More restrictive orders. -- A sharp retort. -- Scurvy. -- A note by "underground." -- Awful mortality. -- Digging out. -- Pursuit fruitless. -- CHAPTER XVIII. -- Exchange rumors. -- A subterfuge. -- Unfit for duty for sixty days. -- Apply for a nurse's post. -- Rebel no reproach. -- Tricks to obtain an exchange. -- Paroling the sick. -- Off for Dixie. -- CHAPTER XIX. -- Leaving Elmira. -- The trip to Baltimore. -- Seven die on the train. -- Arrival in Baltimore. -- Benevolent ladies. -- A stratagem. -- Off for Point Lookout. -- Official thieving. -- Major Brady. -- Massachusetts in 1775. -- Stonewall Jackson. -- His last fight. -- A memory. -- Stonewall Jackson's way. -- CHAPTER XX
Pen routine. -- Diagnosis. -- Plundering the prisoners. -- Off for Dixie. -- The Northern Light. -- The Merrimac and Commodore Vanderbilt. -- Hampton Roads. -- Mitchelltown. -- Servus servorum. -- A strange history. -- Savannah. -- Home!
