Christian Miller Prutsman

Christian Miller Prutsman is known for A Soldier's Experience in Southern Prisons, a memoir published in 1901. In it, he identifies himself as a lieutenant in the Seventh Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers and tells the story of his time as a prisoner during the Civil War.

The book is a personal account of captivity in several Southern prisons, including the hunger, illness, uncertainty, and repeated hopes of escape that shaped daily life for captured Union soldiers. Because it comes from someone who lived through those events, the memoir has lasting value for readers interested in Civil War history and firsthand testimony.

The edition available through Project Gutenberg presents Prutsman not as a distant historical figure, but as a clear, direct storyteller focused on what he saw and endured. Little biographical information was readily confirmed beyond what appears in connection with the book itself, so his surviving reputation today rests largely on this vivid record of wartime survival.