The Soldier's Story of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and Other Rebel Prisons
, by WARREN LEE GOSS
- ISBN: 9781582182278 | 1582182272
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/2001
Warren Lee Goss was a prisoner at Andersonville Prison during the Civi War. His book, The Soldier's tory, is his unexaggerated record of a survivor of the horrors of this prison camp. Through agonizing memories he regards this story as a work of solemn duty rather than a work of pleasure.
| Enlistment in the Engineer Corps | |
| A Prophecy of Dining in Richmond fulfilled differently from Expectations | |
| Battle at Savage's Station | |
| Terrible Conflict | |
| The Army of the Potomac saved | |
| An Incident | |
| Heroism in a Wounded Soldier | |
| A Retreat | |
| Wounded taken Prisoners | |
| First Treatment as a Prisoner | |
| Rebel Prediction of the Capture of Washington | |
| Confidence in McClellan | |
| Stonewall Jackson | |
| False Promises | |
| Taken to Richmond | |
| A Sad Scene | |
| A Rebel Officer's Wit | |
| A Retort | |
| Search and Confiscation of Personal Effects | |
| Description of Prison | |
| Life in Libby Prison | |
| Horrors of such Life | |
| Various Incidents | |
| Change of Quarters | |
| Hope for the Better disappointed | |
| Belle Island | |
| Sickness and Insensibility | |
| Want of Medical Treatment | |
| Description of Belle Isle Prison | |
| Strict Regulations evaded | |
| Trading with the Rebels | |
| Insufficiency of Food | |
| High Prices of Commissary Stores | |
| Depreciated and Counterfeit Currency | |
| Comparative Virtue and Intelligence of Rebels of different States | |
| Extreme Suffering from Hunger | |
| Effects on the Character | |
| Philosophy on the Subject | |
| A Goose Question | |
| Exchange on the Brain | |
| Increased Mortality | |
| A Gleam of Hope | |
| Exchange and Disappointment | |
| Escape and its Punishment | |
| A Rebel Admission that Richmond might have been captured by McClellan | |
| More Prisoners and Suffering | |
| Exchange | |
| Sight of the Old Flag | |
| Parole Camp | |
| Discharge | |
| Return Home | |
| Restoration to Health | |
| Reenlistment | |
| Plymouth, N. C., Description of, and its Defences | |
| A Skirmish with the Enemy | |
| Assault and Surrender of a Garrison | |
| Raid of the Rebel Ram Albemarle | |
| Capture of Plymouth and its Garrisons | |
| Again a Prisoner | |
| An Heroic Woman | |
| Disparity of Forces | |
| Large Rebel Loss | |
| An Exchange of Hats | |
| Pretended Union Men become Rebels | |
| Negro Soldiers hunted and shot | |
| Similar Treatment by Rebels to North Carolina Soldiers | |
| Journey South | |
| The Women curious to see the "Yank" Prisoners | |
| "Dipping" by Women | |
| Unattractive Damsels | |
| Trading Disposition | |
| Depreciated Currency | |
| Tarboro' | |
| Railroad Travel in crowded Cars | |
| False Hopes of Exchange | |
| Proposed Attempt to escape | |
| Delusions in Regard to Prison Life | |
| Wilmington | |
| Charleston | |
| Sympathy of Irish and German Women | |
| Effects of Shot and Shell | |
| Rebel Strategy | |
| Macon, Ga. | |
| Arrival at Andersonville | |
| Acquaintance with Captain Wirz | |
| Impressions of the New Prison | |
| Prison-Life in Andersonville | |
| Twelve Thousand Prisoners | |
| A Shelter constructed | |
| Philosophizing in Misery | |
| Want of Fuel and Shelter | |
| Expedients for Tents | |
| The Ration System | |
| Continued Decrease of Amount | |
| Modes of Cooking | |
| Amusement from Misery | |
| "Flankers," or Thieves | |
| New Companions | |
| A Queer Character | |
| Knowledge of Tunnelling acquired | |
| A novel Method of Escape | |
| Mode of Tunnelling | |
| The Dead Line | |
| Inhumanity and Brutality in shooting Prisoners | |
| Premium on such Acts | |
| Lack of Sanitary Regulations | |
| Sickness and Death very prevalent | |
| Loathsome Forms of Scurvy | |
| A noxious Swamp, and its Effects | |
| Untold Misery | |
| Large Accession of Prisoners | |
| Exposure to heavy Rains and hot Suns | |
| One Thousand Three Hundred and Eighty Deaths in one Week | |
| Depression of Spirits, Insensibility, Insanity, and Idiocy | |
| Tendency to Stoicism | |
| More Philosophizing | |
| Human Sympathies a Cause of Sickness and Death | |
| Philosophy again | |
| Sad Cases of Death from Starvation | |
| Prison Vocabulary | |
| Punishment of Larcenies | |
| Scenes of Violence | |
| Destitution provocative of Troubles | |
| Short Rations | |
| More Fights | |
| Advantages of Strength of Body and Mind | |
| New Standards of Merit | |
| Ingenuity profitable | |
| Development of Faculties | |
| New Trades and Kinds of Business | |
| Cures for all Ills and Diseases | |
| Trading to get more Food | |
| Burden of Bad Habits | |
| Experience in Trade | |
| Stock in Trade eaten up by Partner | |
| A Shrewd Dealer destroys the Business | |
| Trading Exchange | |
| Excitement in the Issue of Rations | |
| A Starving Man killed | |
| His Murderer let off easy through Bribery | |
| Considerable Money in the Camp | |
| Tricks upon Rebel Traders in Prison | |
| Counterfeit or Altered Money disposed of | |
| Rations decreased, and worse in Quality | |
| Crowded Condition of the Prison | |
| Heavy Rains and Increased Sickness | |
| Much Filth and Misery | |
| Hunger a Demoralizer | |
| Plots exposed for Extra Rations | |
| Difficulties of Tunnelling | |
| A Breath of Outside Air and New Life | |
| An Escape under Pretext of getting Wood | |
| Captured by Bloodhounds after a Short Flight | |
| Something learned by the Adventure | |
| A Successful Escape believed to be possible | |
| Preparations for one | |
| Maps and Plans made | |
| A New Tunnelling Operation from a Well | |
| The Tunnel a Success | |
| The Outer Opening near a Rebel Camp Fire | |
| Escape of a Party of Twenty | |
| Division into Smaller Parties | |
| Plans of Travel | |
| Bloodhounds on the Path | |
| The Scent lost in the Water | |
| Various Adventures | |
| Short of Provisions | |
| Killing of a Heifer | |
| Aided by a Negro | |
| Bloodhounds again | |
| Temporary Escape | |
| Fight with the Bloodhounds | |
| Recapture | |
| Attempted Strategy | |
| The Pay for catching Prisoners | |
| Reception by Wirz | |
| Improvement by the Expedition | |
| Some of the Party never heard from | |
| Notoriety by the Flight | |
| Increase of Prisoners, generally destitute | |
| Greater Suffering from no previous Preparation | |
| Sad Cases of Deaths | |
| Rations growing worse | |
| Bad Cooking and Mixtures of Food | |
| Almost untold Misery | |
| Dying amid Filth and Wretchedness | |
| Preparing Bodies for Burial | |
| Horrible and Disgusting Scenes | |
| Increased Mortality | |
| Rebel Surgeons alarmed for their own Safety | |
| Sanitary Measures undertaken | |
| Soon abandoned | |
| Scanty Supply of Medicines | |
| Advantages of a Shower-bath | |
| Gathering up the Dead | |
| Strategy to get outside the Prison as Stretcher-bearers | |
| Betrayal by supposed Spies | |
| Horrors at the Prison Gate in the Distribution of Medicines | |
| The Sick and Dying crowded and trampled upon | |
| Hundreds died uncared for | |
| Brutality in carrying away the Dead | |
| The same Carts used for the Dead Bodies and in carrying Food to the Prison | |
| Robberies in Prison | |
| Means taken to punish such Acts | |
| A Character | |
| Big Peter, a Canadian | |
| His Administration of Justice on Offenders | |
| Becomes a Ruling Power | |
| Missing Men and Rebel Vengeance | |
| Murders of Prisoners by Thieves | |
| A Police Force organized | |
| Courts established | |
| Trials of accused Murderers | |
| Conviction and Execution | |
| The Gang of Murderers, Thieves, and Bounty Jumpers broken up | |
| A Slight Tribute to Wirz, as only the Tool of Others | |
| Character of the Prison Police | |
| Not all Good Effects | |
| A Terror to the Good as well as Bad | |
| Sometimes the Instruments of Rebels | |
| Negro Prisoners | |
| Barbarous Amputations | |
| None but the Wounded made Prisoners | |
| Their cleanly Habits | |
| Treatment | |
| Major Bogle | |
| Bad Treatment of him as an Officer of Negro Troops | |
| A Misunderstanding | |
| Andersonville a Prison for Privates, and not Officers | |
| A great Project to break from Prison | |
| Two Thousand engaged in it | |
| The Project betrayed when nearly completed | |
| Despondency at the Result | |
| Courage renewed providentially | |
| Addition to the Stockade | |
| Much short Comfort from the Enlargement | |
| A new Stock of Fuel soon exhausted | |
| Dishonorable Offers to Prisoners generally spurned by starving Men | |
| Fidelity under extraordinary Circumstances | |
| Instances cited | |
| Heroic Men | |
| New Methods of Operation | |
| These also spurned | |
| Various Evidences of Devotion to Country | |
| Exchange on the Brain | |
| Rumors of Sherman's Movements | |
| Great Expectations and sad Results | |
| Fearful Mortality | |
| Hot Sun and powerful Rains | |
| Stockade swept away | |
| A Spring of pure Water | |
| A new tunnelling Operation nearly fatal to its Projectors | |
| Rebel Aid for once welcomed | |
| Construction of rude Barracks | |
| Prospects of Winter in Prison not encouraging | |
| Weary, miserable Days | |
| Increased Sickness and Mortality | |
| Names of fifty deceased in the Writer's Company | |
| Contrast of Loyal Blacks with Disloyal Whites | |
| Another Tunnelling Operation betrayed for Tobacco | |
| The Betrayer punished | |
| Believed to be a Spy | |
| Further Rumors of Exchange | |
| A Realization | |
| Great Joy | |
| Dying Comrade when Release was ordered | |
| An affecting Scene | |
| Delusive Hopes | |
| Departure from Andersonville | |
| Short Rations | |
| Doubtful Deliverance | |
| Charleston again | |
| A Talk with a Rebel Citizen | |
| Effects of the Siege or the City | |
| Pity and Sympathy | |
| Shot and Shell a Civilizer | |
| The Fair Grounds | |
| Imprisonment on the Fair Ground | |
| Improved Condition | |
| Hardtack, and the Fear of losing it | |
| Tin Pail stolen | |
| Great Misfortune | |
| Loss of Caste by it | |
| Kindness of Women | |
| Ludicrous Tumbling into Wells | |
| Gilmore's Morning Reports welcomed | |
| The Dead Line again | |
| Continued large Mortality | |
| Want of Hospital Accommodations | |
| Good Offices of Sisters of Charity | |
| The Issue of Rations | |
| More Variety, but not of Quantity | |
| Expedients to obtain an Increase | |
| The Rebels baffled in Counting | |
| Honorable Conduct of Colonel Iverson | |
| Scarcity of Wood | |
| Sad Cases of Destitution | |
| Shocking Condition of the Writer | |
| Effects of Scurvy | |
| Death while waiting for Food | |
| Decreased Rations | |
| Plans for Escape | |
| A Trial at it | |
| Recaptured | |
| A warm Fire | |
| Sent to the Workhouse | |
| Improvement on the Camp | |
| Discovery of interesting Papers | |
| Sent back again to Prison | |
| A new Partnership | |
| Rations getting worse | |
| Further Attempts to bribe Prisoners to Disloyalty | |
| Starved and insane Men consent | |
| A Speech and its good Effects | |
| The picturesque Appearance of the Orator | |
| Yellow Fever | |
| Ludicrous Incidents | |
| Leave Charleston | |
| Journey to Florence | |
| Another Attempt to escape | |
| Imprisonment at Florence | |
| An affecting Scene | |
| Inhumanity of Rebel Authorities | |
| The Stockade similar to that at Andersonville | |
| Precautions against Tunnelling | |
| Disrespect of Rebels to their Chief | |
| Poor Shelter | |
| Afterwards improved | |
| Suffering from Cold | |
| Scanty Rations | |
| Woodcutters detailed | |
| Dreadful Annoyance by Vermin | |
| Police organized under Big Peter | |
| The Force perverted to bad Purposes | |
| Despondency at the Prospects | |
| Further Attempts to purchase Treason | |
| Despair has its Effects | |
| An Apology for the poor Fellows | |
| Their Hope of Escape while in Rebel Service | |
| Some of them shot as Deserters | |
| Sublime Heroism | |
| Colonel Iverson again | |
| A Brutal Under-officer | |
| Good News | |
| The Arrival of Clothing | |
| A scanty Supply | |
| The Hospital flanked for a good Meal | |
| The Clouds breaking | |
| More Food | |
| Statement of Colonel Iverson that Food was limited by Orders | |
| Interest in Presidential Election | |
| Vote by Prisoners | |
| Majority for Lincoln | |
| Philosophy of Humor in Suffering | |
| Natural for Men to seek for Sunlight | |
| Smiles and Tears | |
| Lightness of Heart | |
| Jesse L. a Sample | |
| His comical Demeanor | |
| Jess as a Pair of Bellows | |
| A queer Remark | |
| Dealing out Rations | |
| All Eyes on the Meal-bag | |
| Squeezing the Haversack | |
| Eyes big with Hunger | |
| Jesse's Tactics | |
| Raising the black Flag | |
| More Truth than Poetry | |
| Jack E. | |
| Herbert Beckwith | |
| Jess cooking under Difficulties | |
| Scurvy | |
| Combination of Disease, andc. | |
| Torturing Memories | |
| Character developed by Suffering | |
| Arthur H. Smith | |
| A Break | |
| Death of Comrades | |
| A Political Creed | |
| Escape by Bribery | |
| Coincidences | |
| Instances of them | |
| December, 1864 | |
| A Call for Clerks | |
| Colonel Iverson's Surprise | |
| A New Life | |
| Plenty of Food | |
| Better Clothes and Treatment as a Clerk | |
| Register of Dead made up for our Government | |
| Large Mortality for the Number of Prisoners | |
| Many recorded "Unknown." | |
| New Supplies of Clothing | |
| Colonel Iverson affected | |
| Fears from Better Diet | |
| Symptoms of Paralysis | |
| A large Arrival of Letters | |
| Longings for Home revived | |
| Rebel Adjutant Cheatham | |
| Georgia Troops | |
| Yankees employed on the Register, for Want of Competent Rebels | |
| General Winder | |
| His Dislike of Favors to Prisoners | |
| Unfeeling Remarks by him | |
| All sent back to Prison but the Clerks | |
| Inhumanity to Prisoners under him attributed to the Rebel Government | |
| An attempted Palliation by Iverson that Rebel Prisoners were ill treated | |
| Low Estimate of Yankees by Iverson | |
| Humor of Adjutant Cheatham | |
| His Description of a South Carolina Drill | |
| New Prisoners | |
| Orders to prepare for Exchange | |
| A Joyful Day | |
| A Poor Comrade | |
| Sad Sights | |
| A little Strategy to get off | |
| A Surprise, and Imprisonment ended | |
| Left Florence for Charleston | |
| Awaiting the Subsiding of a Storm | |
| A Massachusetts Rebel | |
| Compassionate Woman | |
| Under the "Old Flag" again | |
| Arrival at Annapolis | |
| Once more at Home... | |
| Appendix | |
| Testimonials | p. 269 |
| Names of the Union Soldiers buried at Andersonville | p. 275 |
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