: A Soldier's Experience in Southern Prisons A Graphic Description of the Author's Experiences in Various Southern Prisons by Prutsman Christian Miller - United States History Civil War 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons

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Events preceding my capture--The last day of freedom--A major's folly--My picket line captured--Warrenton--I lose a valuable pair of boots--Culpepper--Farewell to the boots--A disappointing test of good faith 5

Libby--Now I lose my money--"Fresh fish"--Quarters and rations--Boxes from home--Two majors escape--A general conspiracy--Bad news and new prisoners--General Butler saves two Union officers by threatening to hang Captains Fitzhugh Lee and Winder--Two female prisoners discovered in male attire in Belle Isle--We secure their release 13

Sick in the smallpox ward--A new plan of escape--Over a powder mine--The plan fails--Filling the roll, one hundred and nine men "short"--Shot at through windows--"Bread! bread!"--Hopes of exchange--May 1st--Boxes which had passed in the night--Brutes--More boxes--Danville, May 8th--Two weeks later, Macon 20

A tunnel spoiled by the rain--Captain Tabb's cruelties--Corn pone bakers--July 4th squelched--Beyond the "dead line"--Caught--Sherman sixty miles away--Charleston--Negro regimental prisoners--In the gallows' shadow--Whipping-post--Paroles --Money exchange drafts--The Anderson men 29

Sherman devastates Northern Georgia--Columbia "Camp Sorghum"--A "dug-out"--I get away--Free--An unexpected plunge--Trouble ahead--Recaptured--A meal--The "debtor's cell" at Abbeville--Back to "Sorghum" 41

An "underground railway"--More paroles--Bloodhounds--Bribing the guard--Bloodhound steaks--Two hundred and fifty prisoners "short"--Back to Columbia--Building barracks--A good tunnel started 50

Five of us have a narrow escape from the train--Friendly negroes--A good old "shakedown" 57

Surrounded by rebel forces--Undiscovered--Skirmishing for food--Sambo--Sambo's schemes--Sambo brings succor--At headquarters--Sambo's reward 65

General Logan--General Sherman--Clean at last--General Hobart's hospitality--Luxurious ease--A ghastly reminder of horrors escaped--Washington "short"--Ordered back to my regiment--An honorable discharge 74

A SOLDIER'S EXPERIENCE IN SOUTHERN PRISONS.

Events preceding my capture--The last day of freedom--A major's folly--My picket line captured--Warrenton--I lose a valuable pair of boots--Culpepper--Farewell to the boots--A disappointing test of good faith.

My enlistment in the service of the United States as a soldier to aid in putting down the rebellion of 1861-5 bears the date, August 2, 1861. I was mustered into the service as a second sergeant of Co. I, 7th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, August 28, 1861, which regiment afterwards formed a part of the famous "Iron Brigade." I was afterwards promoted to the rank of orderly sergeant, serving as such until April 15, 1863, when I was commissioned second lieutenant, and finally on May 4, 1863, received my commission as first lieutenant, in which capacity I was serving at the time of the opening of my story.

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