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1 online resource |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.� |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
Annotation THE PRISONER OF WAR is Anthony Keiley's extraordinary story of his experiences as a captive confederate soldier while in two federal prisons during the Civil War. Union soldiers captured Keiley when Generals Gillmore and Kautz were sent to capture Petersburg, and destroy the railroad and common bridges across the Appomatox in June of 1864. Spawned by false depictions of the character of people from the south by the northern press, Keiley revised his original story in an effort to portray the atrocities committed against the people of the southern states by the Union armies in the name of liberty |
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Civil war -- Personal narratives, Confederate
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Civil war
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Prisoners of war
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140262
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140264
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1582183244 |
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9781582183244 |
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