Contents
Acknowledgments
Editors’ Note
Prologue
Captured at Shiloh, April 6, 1862
Eyewitness Account
-John H. Stibbs, Company D, Account of Surrender at Shiloh
Prison Accounts: Enlisted Men
-Charles L. Sumbardo, Company I, Incidents of Prison Life
-George Erwin Comstock, Company C, Reminiscences of S.C. Beck in Prison Life
-Seth Jones Crowhurst, Company E, Reminiscences of a Union Soldier, Letter: October 24, 1862, and Letter: November 5, 1862
-Bryon P. Zuver, Company D, Prisoner of War
Prison Accounts: Lieutenants
-Luther W. Jackson, Company H, A Prison Diary
-John W. Gift, Company F, Speech Delivered in Delhi, Iowa, November 1862
-Joseph B. Dorr, Company I, Journal of My Imprisonment in the Rebellion, Letter: June 11, 1862, and Letter: July 16, 1862
Prison Accounts: Officers
-John H. Stibbs, Company D, An Account of Southern Prisons, An Open Letter
-Edward M. Van Duzee, Company I, Incidents of Prison Life in 1862
William W. Warner, Company C, Letter: April 29, 1862, May 23, 1862, May 28, 1862, and June 13, 1862
Release and Parole
-Erastus B. Soper, Company D, Paroled Prisoners from Macon, Georgia, to St. Louis
Captured at Cornith, October 3, 1862
Eyewitness Account
-Erastus B. Soper, Company D, Excerpts from the “History of Company D, 12th Iowa”
Prison Account
-Allen M. Blanchard, Company D, Reminiscences of the Capture and Detention of Allen M. Blanchard, as a Prisoner of War
Captured at Jackson, July 11, 1863
Prison Account
-George Erwin Comstock, Company D, A Prison Diary
Captured at Tupelo, July 13 and 15, 1864
Eyewitness Accounts
-Frederick Humphrey, Chaplain, The 12th Iowa at the Battle of Tupelo: Letter from an Eye Witness
-William L. Henderson, Company C, Letter: July 21, 1864
Prison Accounts
-Edwin A. Buttolph, Company D, Reminiscences of the Second Capture of Edwin A. Buttolph on July 13, 1864, and His Detention in Rebel Prisons: Prepared by Himself
-John De Vine, Company I, An Account of Castle Morgan, Cahaba
-J. Warren Cotes, Company I, A Brief Account of the Experience in Captivity of the Men Captured at Tupelo, July 15th, 1864, An Open Letter
Epilogue
-John H. Stibbs, Andersonville and the Trial of Henry Wirz
Biographies of Individuals Mentioned in the Accounts
Notes
Literature Cited
Index