Prison Life in Dixie

This book gives a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of Union soldiers held as prisoners of war at the infamous Sumter Prison a.k.a. Andersonville. Captured in the summer of 1864, Sergeant Oates is taken to Andersonville. Renowned as one of the worst prisons of the Civil War. Follow Oates as he escapes and flees through the swamps, woods and fields of Georgia subsisting on frogs and unharvested corn only to be recaptured by enemy soldiers. Sergeant Oates endeavors to furnish the reader with incidents and descriptions that give a true picture of Rebel prisons and the means and methods of either surviving or dying in them. Digitally recreated from an original 1880 volume.