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Title: In and Out of Rebel Prisons

Author: Lieut. A. [Alonzo] Cooper

Release Date: April 5, 2010 [EBook #31895]

Language: English

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[Illustration: [signature] A. Cooper]

IN AND OUT
OF
REBEL PRISONS,

BY
LIEUT. A. COOPER,

12th N. Y. CAVALRY.

ILLUSTRATED.

OSWEGO, N. Y.:
R. J. OLIPHANT, JOB PRINTER, BOOKBINDER AND STATIONER.
1888.

Copyrighted 1888,
BY A. COOPER.
All Rights Reserved.

To CAPTAIN ROBERT B. HOCK,
THE GALLANT AND LOYAL COMRADE IN THE FIELD,
THE FAITHFUL AND CONSTANT FRIEND DURING THE DARK
DAYS OF MY PRISON LIFE,

The Daring Companion of my Escape

AND THREE HUNDRED MILE TRAMP THROUGH THE CONFEDERACY,
WHO, WHEN I BECAME TOO FEEBLE TO GO FARTHER, SO
GENEROUSLY TOOK OUT HIS PURSE AND GAVE ME THE LARGEST HALF OF ITS
CONTENTS,
THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

Many books have been written upon prison life in the South, but should
every survivor of Andersonville, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Florence,
Salisbury, Danville, Libby and Belle Island write their personal
experiences in those rebel slaughter houses, it would still require the
testimony of the sixty-five thousand whose bones are covered with Southern
soil to complete the tale.

Being an officer, I suffered but little in comparison with what was
endured by the rank and file, our numbers being less, our quarters were
more endurable and our facilities for cleanliness much greater. Besides,
we were more apt to have money and valuables, which would, in some degree,
provide for our most urgent needs.

In giving my own personal experiences, I shall endeavor to write of the
prison pens in which were confined only officers, just as I found
them--"Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice."

Being blessed with the happy faculty of looking upon the bright side