LIFE AND DEATH IN REBEL PRISONS

Kellogg (Robert H.)

400 pages,  Hardback.  1st Edition. Frontispiece.  Cloth covered board.  Gilt embossing is fading through age and use. Minor wear on spine and one corner.  Tight binding.  Pages have foxing throughout.  Narrative text interspersed with 11 illustrations.  Published 1863.

LIFE AND DEATH IN REBEL PRISONS
Giving a complete history if the inhuman and barbarous treatment of the brave soldiers by Rebel Authorities, inflicting terrible suffering and frightful mortality, principally at Anderson, GA and Florence SC.  Describing plans of escape, arrival of prisoners, with numerous and varied incidents and antecdotes of prison life.

The author was a Sergeant-Major in the 16th Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteers of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers. From the start of the Civil War through to 1863 a parole exchange system saw most prisoners of war swapped relatively quickly. However, from 1863 this broke down following the Confederacy's refusal to treat black and white Union prisoners equally, leading to soaring numbers held on both sides.

Records indicate the capture of 211,411 Union soldiers, with 16,668 paroled and 30,218 died in captivity; of Confederate soldiers, 462,684 were captured, 247,769 paroled and 25,976 died in captivity. Just over 5.6% of the captives in Northern prisons died, compared to 14.29% for Southern prisons.

It has been noted, "the suffering of prisoners did more to inhibit postwar reconciliation than any other episode of the war."

This book is based on the author's personal journals and experience in the prisons camps in the Confederacy.

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