Publication

2002 - Digital Scanning, Inc., Scituate, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

102,000 words, Guess

Page Count

408 pages

Physical Format

EBook

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101582182264
  • ISBN-139781582182261
  • OverDrive00AD9A6A-6D52-4451-A8F4-7A80E0FC943F
  • OCLC Control Number56433543
  • Open LibraryOL24290024M

Description

During the Civil War tens of thousands of soldiers died in prisons. In Andersonville Prison Pen alone over 11,000 soldiers of the 33,000 died of starvation, exposure and consumption or other disease. Warren Lee Goss was a member of the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment of Heavy Artillery during the war. In “The Soldier’s Story” Goss writes of his captivity at Andersonville and Belle Isle prisons. Goss was a prisoner twice, once in 1862 for four months and in 1864 for nine months. His experience in these prisons was of a kind that few endure and live to write about. Although he attempts to relate the tale of horrors experienced in these prisons without exaggeration, he realizes that it is hard to comprehend that men can live through some of the cruelties of which he writes, to understand man’s inhumanity to man.With 24 Illustrations, maps and drawings by Thomas Nast from Harpers Weekly.

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  • The Soldier's StoryEBookDigital Scanning, Inc.2002

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