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Christian Miller Prutsman
Best known for a vivid Civil War prison memoir, this author writes from direct experience as a Union officer captured during the conflict. His brief, firsthand account gives the story an immediacy that still feels personal more than a century later.
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About the author
Christian Miller Prutsman is known for A Soldier's Experience in Southern Prisons, first published in 1901. The book is a firsthand Civil War memoir rather than a later retelling, and it presents his own account of captivity in Southern prisons.
The title page identifies him as a lieutenant in the Seventh Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers. That military background shapes the book's plainspoken style: it reads as the testimony of someone who wanted to record what he saw and endured, with an emphasis on hardship, survival, and the daily reality of imprisonment.
Reliable biographical details about his wider life are limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to remember him primarily through this memoir. Even so, that single work has remained available through major public-domain archives and continues to interest readers of Civil War history.