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BY A VIRGINIA CONFEDERATE.
PETERSBURG, V A .:
“DAILY INDEX” OFFICE.
1866.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year l866,
B Y A. M. KEILEY,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the
District of Virginia.
IN VINCULIS OR;
THE PRISONER OF WAR
By A Virginia Confederate
As Published in 1866
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MEMORY OF
IN FRONT OF PETERSBURG,
This volume
IS REVERENTLY DEDICATED.
EXPLANO-PREFATORY.
CHAPTER I.
Absit omen.—Cavalry advancing.—To the front.—Choice of
weapons.—Company E, Twelfth Virginia Infantry, A. N. V. 13
CHAPTER II.
The battle opens.—The first charge repulsed.—Artillery com-
ing to help us.—Overpowered.—A prisoner 20
CHAPTER III.
The advance checked.—Gilmore fails.—Marching off.—An es-
cape.—At Kautz’s quarters.—First prison feed.—An interview
with the general.—Transferred 27
CHAPTER IV.
Beast Butler 36
CHAPTER V.
To Bermuda Hundreds.—Black guard.—Awful swearing.—A
cold night.—Down the river.—Prison thieves.—Andersonville
and Wirz.—Leaving Fortress Monroe.—Maryland 46
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CHAPTER VI.
Point Lookout.—A brute.—The Pen.—Lyon’s Den.—A friend
in need.—The demoralization of prison-life 56
CHAPTER VII.
Order of exorcises.—Fabrications of the Sanitary Commission.—
History of the pen.—Official clothes thieves.—The guards.—
Black guards again 64
CHAPTER VIII.
Shelter at Point Lookout.—Cracker-box houses.—A prison ad-
venture.—Prison ingenuity.—The washerwomen.—Contribu-
tions to prisoners.—The war a people’s war.—A woman.—A
loyal negro 71
CHAPTER IX.
Black patriots on the rampage.—Major Weymouth’s inspection.—
Foul water.—Columbia.—Rumored capture of Petersburg.—
Peculiar costume.—The rationale of rations 84
CHAPTER X.
Officers moving.—Negro insolence.—Fires out across the dead
line.—Improvising furniture.—Designs on a “nail kag.”—
Negro regiment to the front.—A new prison at Elmira.—The
Fourth of July in vinculis.—Noble Maryland 96
CHAPTER XI.
More arrivals.—The sinking of the Alabama.—“Miss Gilbert’s
Career.”—Old Jubal after the Suabians.—A disagreeable or-
der.—Working details.—Changing quarters 108
CONTENTS. 11
CHAPTER XII.
Deliverance against sea-going.—A disgusting trip.—A Good Sa-
maritan.—Nectar.—New York harbor.—On the Erie Rail-
road.—Sympathizers.—At Elmira.—El Cid anathematized 117
CHAPTER XIII.
Statistics of Elmira Pen.—The officers.—Samples of Federal cru-
elty.—Number of prisoners.—Barrack accommodations 128
CHAPTER XIV.
Matters medical.—Sanger the sanguinary.—Rebel doctors.—
Cruel neglect of the sick.—Deaths at Elmira and Anderson-
ville contrasted.—The Commissary Department.—Punish-
ments 138
CHAPTER XV.
De minimis.—Withstanding temptation.—The author seeking
office—And getting it 148
CHAPTER XVI.
Arcadian experience.—A terrible accident.—Neglect of the vic-
tims.—A note from Madam Ik Marvel.—An observatory.—
Loyalty and sight-seeing.—Preaching in camp.—The cam-
paign in a diagram.—A reminiscence of Jeb Stuart.—The ne-
groes on guard.—Petersburg in flames.—Heavy eating.—
Chess 154
CHAPTER XVII.
Sermons.—A political bloodhound of Zion.—Clothing pro-
scribed.—Disgusting obscenity.—The Tallahassee.—A com-
rade dies.—A contraband.—More restrictive orders.—A sharp
retort.—Scurvy.—A note by “underground.”—Awful mor-
tality.—Digging out.—Pursuit fruitless 166
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CHAPTER XVIII.
Exchange rumors.—A subterfuge.—Unfit for duty for sixty
days.—Apply for a nurse’s post.—Rebel no reproach.—Tricks
to obtain an exchange.—Paroling the sick.—Off for Dixie 178
CHAPTER XIX.
Leaving Elmira.—The trip to Baltimore.—Seven die on the
train.—Arrival in Baltimore.—Benevolent ladies.—A strata-
gem.—Off for Point Lookout.—Official thieving.—Major
Brady.—Massachusetts in 1775.—Stonewall Jackson.—His last
fight.—A memory.—Stonewall Jackson’s way 189
CHAPTER XX.
Pen routine.—Diagnosis.—Plundering the prisoners.—Off for
Dixie.—The Northern Light.—The Merrimac and Commodore
Vanderbilt.—Hampton Roads.—Mitchelltown.—Servus servo-
rum.—A strange history.—Savannah.—Home! 203
IN VINCULIS;
OR,
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
Beast Butler.
CHAPTER V.
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