Twelve Months in Andersonville (Abridged, Annotated)

A year in hell. A voice that refused to be silenced.

Captured as a Union soldier and thrown into the infamous Andersonville prison, Lessel Long endured twelve unthinkable months of starvation, disease, brutality, and the daily sight of men wasting away around him. Yet even as his body failed, his resolve hardened. He clung to life with a single purpose: to survive long enough to bear witness.

In Twelve Months in Andersonville, Long reconstructs his ordeal in uncompromising, often graphic deta...