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The Soldier's Story: Of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and Other Rebel Prisons

The Soldier's Story: Of His Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and Other Rebel Prisons

Nast, Thomas
Goss, Warren Lee

Paperback

Historical FiguresCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 1582182272
ISBN13: 9781582182278
Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc
Published: Jan 1 2001
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.43
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

During the Civil War tens of thousands of soldiers died in prisons. In Andersonville Prison Pen alone over 11,000 soldiers of the 33,000 died of starvation, exposure and consumption or other disease.

Warren Lee Goss, a member of the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment of Heavy Artillery during the war. In The Soldier's Story Goss writes of his captivity at Andersonville and Belle Isle prisons. Goss was a prisoner twice, once in 1862 for four months and in 1864 for nine months. His experience in these prisons was of a kind that few endure and live to write about. Although he attempts to relate the tale of horrors experienced in these prisons without exaggeration, he realizes that it is hard to comprehend that men can live through some of the cruelties of which he writes, to understand man's inhumanity to man.

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