A true life story, which no book has presented before, of a poor soldier who plumbed the depths of misery, became a national hero, was punished for his good deeds, and ended as a wealthy man, married to a Polynesian princess. Twelve thousand Union men died in Andersonville prison. Atwater kept a secret list of the 12,000 dead, hidden in his coat lining. He knew that when the war ended, the families of the dead would want to know what happened to their...
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