Andersonville: a Story of Rebel Military Prisons, Fifteen Months a Guest of the So-called Southern Confederacy. a Private Soldiers Ex

The years of 1864-65 were a season of desperate battles, but in that time many more Union soldiers were slain behind the Rebel army lines by starvation and exposure than were killed by cannon and rifle. This is McElroy's account of the horrible spectacle of Andersonville prison, where 70,000 young Union soldiers died under appalling conditions. 150 illustrations.