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Life-Struggles In Rebel Prisons: A Record Of The Sufferings, Escapes, Adventures And Starvation Of The Union Prisoners; Containing An Appendix With Th

Life-Struggles In Rebel Prisons: A Record Of The Sufferings, Escapes, Adventures And Starvation Of The Union Prisoners; Containing An Appendix With Th

Joseph

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Biographies GeneralGeneral ReferenceRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 9354541585
ISBN13: 9789354541582
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Behind the palisades of the Andersonville Georgia stockade, survival was measured in mouthfuls and minutes. Hunger writes in the dark. Life-Struggles In Rebel Prisons is a civil war memoir by Joseph, told as a prison camp narrative of capture, confinement, and the relentless arithmetic of union pow starvation. With plain-spoken force it offers historical war testimony from inside american civil war prisons, tracing fear, ingenuity, and the will to endure, including accounts of andersonville prison survival and daring escapes from confederate prisons. Beyond the personal ordeal, the volume serves civil war history readers as a civil war primary sources collection: an eyewitness record shaped by lived experience, not hindsight. Its appendix of pennsylvania regimental records lists the names, units, and dates of death of Pennsylvania soldiers who perished at Andersonville, adding a sober roll of loss to the narrative. For anyone seeking a complete pow memoir that brings the era close without embellishment, this is both gripping reading and an essential reference. First published in the nineteenth century, it remains a rare window onto camp life, language, and morale, and a memorial to the dead. For classic-literature collectors it belongs beside soldiers' diaries; for general readers, its immediacy and hard detail pull you onwards, a stark companion to battlefield histories that refuses easy consolation, quietly still. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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