author
John McElroy
1846–1929
A Civil War veteran turned journalist and novelist, he wrote with the authority of lived experience. His best-known books draw on his time as a Union prisoner and on the everyday lives of soldiers after the battle smoke cleared.
17 Audiobooks
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 4
by John McElroy
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 1
by John McElroy
Si Klegg, Book 3 Si and Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, the Spy, Who Relates His Adventures
by John McElroy
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 2
by John McElroy
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
by John McElroy
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 3
by John McElroy
Si Klegg, Book 6 Si and Shorty, with Their Boy Recruits, Enter on the Atlanta Campaign
by John McElroy
The Red Acorn
by John McElroy
Si Klegg, Book 2 Thru the Stone River Campaign and in Winter Quarters at Murfreesboro
by John McElroy
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John McElroy
by John McElroy
Si Klegg, Complete, Books 1-6
by John McElroy
Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson, and Twenty Great Battles
by John McElroy
The Economic Functions of Vice
by John McElroy
The Struggle for Missouri
by John McElroy
About the author
Born in Kentucky in 1846, he became a printer and then served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was captured and spent many months in Confederate prisons, including Andersonville, an experience that later shaped some of his most famous writing.
After the war he built a career as a journalist, editor, and author. He is especially remembered for Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons and for the popular Si Klegg books, which mixed military history, humor, and close observation of ordinary soldiers.
His work stayed closely tied to Civil War memory and veteran life, and several of his books were published by or connected with The National Tribune. He died in 1929, leaving behind a body of writing that helped many later readers picture the war from a common soldier’s point of view.