Battle field and prison pen, or Through the war, and thrice a prisoner in rebel dungeons. A graphic recital of personal experiences throughout the whole period of the late war for the Union
Life in southern prisons; from the diary of Corporal Charles Smedley, of Company G, 90th regiment Penn'a volunteers, commencing a few days before the "battle of the Wilderness", in which he was taken prisoner, in the evening of the fifth month fifth, 1864: also, a short description of the march to and battle of Gettysburg, together with a biographical sketch of the author
xi, [1], 13-633 p. incl. plates, front., plates, ports.
Notes
Other editions published under titles, "Battle field and prison pen," "Through the war and thrice a prisoner in rebel dungeons."
Contents
Contents : The Overt Act of Treason and It's effect North and South --- Advance of the Grand Army From Washington and It's Defeat at Bull Run --- Departure of McClellan's Army For the Peninsula --- Advance of McDowell From Washington --- The Seven Days Fight On the Peninsula -- My First Capture --- Army of The Potomac and McClellan's Defence of The Capital --- Extravagant Errors, Halleck and Stanton In Control --- General Lee's Invasion of Pennsylvania and The Battle of Gettysburg --- Northern Campaign, Confederate Authorities Desperate --- Battle of The Wilderness , Our Capture and Recapture --- Advance of Grant's Forces -- Andersonville --- Hanging of The Thieves --- Enlargement of Our Prison --- Andersonville In August --- Millen Prison --- Florence Prison --- St. John's Gollege Hospital
Summary
The author tells of his experiences in the Civil War, including time spent in Confederate prisons.
This volume includes the complete text of two orations made at the reunion as well as a history of the regiment. There are many details concerning the formation, the logistics, and the tasks of the 122d Regiment.
pub. by the Committee on Hospitals for the Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
H.B. Ashmead, printer,
Date of Publication
1864.
Physical Description
60 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Sketches of army and navy life.
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Contents
Reminiscences of prison life by one of the rank and file -- Soldier life of John W. Whaples -- The father's lament -- Union refreshment saloons, Phila. -- Description of a battle -- What a Union woman suffered -- Died of his wounds
Records of the revolutionary war: containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their commissions and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown and Valley Forge; with a list of distinguished prisoners of war; the time of their capture, exchange, etc. To which is added the half-pay acts of the Continental Congress; the revolutionary pension laws; and a list of the officers of the Continental Army who acquired the right to half-pay, commutation, and lands
Reports of the United German Evangelical Lutheran congregations in North America, specially in Pennsylvania; with preface by Dr. John Ludwig Schulze ... Volume I
Added t.p.: Halle reports. New ed., with extensive historical, critical and literary annotations, and numerous documents, copied from the manuscripts in the archives of the Francke institutions at Halle. By Rev. W.J. Mann ... and Rev. B.M. Schmucker ... assisted by Rev. W. Germann ... Translated from the German by Rev. C.W. Schaeffer ...
No more published.
Reports of the Lutheran pastors in Pennsylvania to the authorities in Halle. This translation contains the first "Brief report" and the first and second "continuations."
