Eighteen Months A Prisoner Under The Rebel Flag: A Condensed Pen-picture of Belle Isle, Danville, Andersonville, Charleston, Florence and Libby Prisons from Actual Experience

On September 20, 1863, at "about noon," as the Army of the Cumberland under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans suffered one of the most significant Union defeats of the Civil War, Sergeant Samuel Boggs of the 21st Illinois Infantry found himself, along with many of his comrades, cut off from retreat, surrounded, and forced to surrender. Thus would begin eighteen months of the most hellish, inhumane, evil treatment imaginable; not through neglect, but by intentional premeditated decision at the hig...