CAHABA: Captive Boys in Blue (Expanded, Annotated)

It is the worst Civil War POW camp you've probably never heard of. A larger percentage of those who left Cahaba died within the Union lines than of those who left Andersonville. it was five times more crowded than Andersonville.

Jesse Hawes was an 18-year-old enlistee in the 9th Illinois Cavalry who was captured and imprisoned at Cahaba. In one of the most articulate, unique, and moving accounts of prison life in the south, the Colorado physician looks back more than thirty years to the desp...