Life And Death In Rebel Prisons: Giving A Complete History Of The Inhuman And Barbarous Treatment Of Our Brave Soldiers By Rebel Authorities, Inflicting Terrible Suffering And Frightful Mortality, Principally At Andersonville, Ga., And Florence, S. C., Describing Plans Of Escape, Arrival Of Prisoners, With Numerous And Varied Incidents And Anecdotes Of Prison Life

KELLOGG, ROBERT H. [SERGEANT-MAJOR 10TH REGIMENT, CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEERS, PREPARED FROM HIS DAILY JOURNAL]

Publication: L Stebbins, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut

First edition.12 mo. Decorated cloth, titles and decorations on front cover and spine stamped in gilt, viii - 11 - 400 pp., frontispiece, preface, the eleven steel engraved illustrations are present (includes the frontispiece), two pages of advertisements. Also included is a list and location of principal Confederate prisons.

“A sergeant’s journal of captivity, reworked by the editor; very bitter over deliberate cruelty to prisoners, but also gives facts tending to show the opposite.” -- Nevins, Civil War Books page 195. The author, a Sergeant-Major in the 16th Connecticut Volunteers, recounts his experiences at Andersonville, Georgia and Florence, South Carolina. He describes brutal conditions, frequent deaths, challenges to daily survival, escape attempts, and moments of humanity. This colorful, detailed account is one of the best first-person descriptions of captivity in a Confederate pow camp.

Front cover has three small colored spots, gilt flaked off the spine but readable, small label removed from the front pastedown sheet, light wear to the fore-edge of the title page, else internally clean and tight. Overall a good copy of a seldom offered book..