Life in Southern Prisons

Name: Life in Southern Prisons
Author: Charles Smedley

by Charles Smedley

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Life in Southern Prisons From the Diary of Corporal Charles Smedley, of Company G, 90th Regiment Penn'a Volunteers, Commencing a Few Days Before the "Battle of the Wilderness", In Which He Was Taken Prisoner ... Also, a Short Description of the March to and Battle of Gettysburg, Together with a Biographical Sketch of the Author

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2019-08-10

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives E456

About the author

Charles Smedley

1836–1864

A young Union soldier left behind a vivid prison diary that became one of the personal records of the American Civil War. His account follows the brutal months after he was captured in 1864, giving the story an immediacy that still feels striking.

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