Written by a former member of the Seventy-Six New York infantry regiment, this publication offers first-hand experiences and observations of Andersonville, a military prison in Georgia. This work opens with the cause and events that led to the Civil War, then dives into diary excerpts that thoroughly detail the author's daily life as a soldier, from the fight that led to imprisonment by the Rebels, to December 8th, 1864, when he was finally sent...