Tabla de Contenidos:
  • IN VINCULIS; OR THE PRISONER OF WAR
  • PREFACE.
  • CONTENTS.
  • CHAPTER I.
  • Absit omen.
  • Cavalry advancing.
  • To the front.
  • Choice of weapons.
  • Company E, Twelfth Virginia Infantry, A.N. V
  • CHAPTER II.
  • The battle opens.
  • The first charge repulsed.
  • Artillery coming to help us.
  • Overpowered.
  • A prisoner.
  • CHAPTER III.
  • The advance checked.
  • Gilmore fails.
  • Marching off.
  • An escape.
  • At Kautzâ€?s quarters.
  • First prison feed.
  • An interview with the general.
  • CHAPTER IV.
  • Beast Butler.
  • CHAPTER V.To Bermuda Hundreds.
  • Black guard.
  • Awful swearing.
  • A cold night.
  • Down the river.
  • Prison thieves.
  • Andersonville and Wirz.
  • Leaving Fortress Monroe.
  • Maryland.
  • CHAPTER VI.
  • Point Lookout.
  • A brute.
  • The Pen.
  • Lyonâ€?s Den.
  • A friend in need.
  • The demoralization of prison-life.
  • CHAPTER VII.
  • Order of exorcises.
  • Fabrications of the Sanitary Commission.
  • History of the pen.
  • Official clothes thieves.
  • The guards.
  • Black guards again.
  • CHAPTER VIII.
  • Shelter at Point Lookout.Cracker-box houses.
  • A prison adventure
  • Prison ingenuity.
  • The washerwomen.
  • Contributions to prisoners.
  • The war a peopleâ€?s war.
  • A woman.
  • A loyal negro.
  • CHAPTER IX.
  • Black patriots on the rampage.
  • Major Weymouthâ€?s inspection.
  • Foul water.
  • Columbia.
  • Rumored capture of Petersburg.
  • Peculiar costume.
  • The rationale of rations.
  • CHAPTER X.
  • Officers moving.
  • Negro insolence.
  • Fires out across the deadline.
  • Improvising furniture.
  • Designs on a “nail kag.â€?
  • Negro regiment to the front.A new prison at Elmira.
  • The Fourth of July in vinculis.
  • Noble Maryland.
  • CHAPTER XI.
  • More arrivals.
  • The sinking of the Alabama.
  • “Miss Gilbertâ€?s Career.
  • Old Jubal after the Suabians.
  • A disagreeable order.
  • Working details.
  • Changing quarters.
  • CHAPTER XII.
  • Deliverance against sea-going.
  • A disgusting trip.
  • A Good Samaritan.
  • Nectar.
  • New York harbor.
  • On the Erie Railroad.
  • Sympathizers.
  • At Elmira.
  • El Cid anathematized
  • CHAPTER XIII.
  • Statistics of Elmira Pen.The officers.
  • Samples of Federal cruelty.
  • Number of prisoners.
  • Barrack accommodations.
  • CHAPTER XIV.
  • Matters medical.
  • Sanger the sanguinary.
  • Rebel doctors.
  • Cruel neglect of the sick.
  • Deaths at Elmira and Andersonville contrasted.
  • The Commissary Department.
  • Punishments.
  • CHAPTER XV.
  • De minimis.
  • Withstanding temptation.
  • The author seeking office.
  • And getting it.
  • CHAPTER XVI.
  • Arcadian experience.
  • A terrible accident.
  • Neglect of the victims.