Lights and shadows in Confederate prisons

by Homer B. Sprague

• occupations, [83], [84], [85], [91], [92]; [97-105]
• O'Neil, Col., Yale classmate, killed, [64], [130]
• Opequon battle, [3-15]
• Opequon Creek, [3], [7]
• order to retreat, [11]
• Ould, R., Confed. Agt. for exchange, [151]
• ovens for baking, [110]
• overcoat saved, [19], [20], [42], [46], [105], [108], [109]

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• "painfully sober," [85]
• parole given, [53], [129]
• parole rejected, [53]
• pediculidæ vestimenti, non capitis, [99], [100]
• Petersburg shelled, [45]
• Pharaoh's epidermis and obstinacy, [80]
• Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, [10]
• plots to break out, [61-75]; [113-119]
• policing prison, [87], [100]
• prayer of chaplain Emerson, [58], [80]
• prey and pray, [121]
• Prey, Col. Gilbert G., [54], [115], [130]
• prison number 3, officers', [78], +
• prison 6, the worst of all, [131], [132]
• prison rules adopted, [87], [88]
• profanity of soldiers, [14], [15], [39], [87]
• Putnam, Adjt. G. Haven, [91], [92], [101], [110], [121], [140], [142]

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• questions, amusing or ugly, [104], [105], [141]

R

• Ralston, Col., killed, [61], [64], [66], [114], [118]
• Ramseur, S. D., Confed. Gen., [13], [15]
• rations, [44], [49], [56], [93], [94], [100], [102], [107], [124], [139]
• recapture of escaped officers, [112]
• recount made futile by trick, [111], [112]
• Redwood of Mobile, Yale classmate, [38]
• Reed, "shot into inch pieces," [24], [25], [26], [31]
• retaliation threatened, [60];
  • done, [148]
• rheumatism, [123], [142]
• Richardson, Albert D., of Tribune, [52]
• Richmond, arrival at, [40], [136]
• Richmond, watching exploding shells, [45]
• Ricketts' Division, [5], [6], [7], [9], [12]
• riddle, fatal to the old poet, [99]
• riots in July, 1863, [133], [149]
• robbery of captives, [15], [22], [46]
• Rodes, Confed. General, [5];
  • killed, [10], [13]
• roll-call nullified, [111], [112]
• roll-call sergt., queer, [99-103], [111], [112]
• rope ladder, twisted rags, [111], [112]
• rules adopted in prison, [87], [88], [141], [153]
• Russell, Sergt. Alfred, [89]
• Russell, Gen. D. A., killed, [13]
• Russell, Martha, [89]
• Russell, Gen. W. H., [128]

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• Sadler, Major David, [66]
• Salisbury prison, [50-55]; [61], [130], [133], [134], [136]
• sandwiches, G. W. Swepson's, [49]
• sanitary measures, [79], [80], [103], [141], [142]
• Sargent, Lieut, of 14th N. H., [23]
• Scott, Sir Walter, quoted, [8], [37], [134], [135]
• scurvy prevalent, [123], [142]
• searching of prisoners, [41], [42], [119]
• seceded states, a real nation? [150], [151]
• sentries' sing-song call, [44]
• sermons in prison, [57], [58], [121], [122]
• "Set the table for dinner," [96]
• Shakespeare, quoted, [36], [118], [119]
• Shakespeare's Hamlet, [85], [140]
• shelter, lack of at Salisbury, [53], [55], [136]
• Shenandoah river and valley, [1], [2]
• Sheridan's devastation, [1], [2], [3]
• Sherman, Gen. W. T., quoted, [1]
• "shot twice into inch pieces," [24]
• Simpson, Lieut. J. B.; his sly trick, [77]
• singing at evening at Danville, [104], [141]
• Sixth Corps, [4], [5], [6], [10], [13]
• "skirmishing" a misnomer, [102], [103]
• slavery doomed in any event, [149]
• "Slim Jim," [101]
• Small, Major Adner A., [142]
• Smith, Robert C., Confed. commandant, [81], [82]
• Smith, Col. Robert C., Yale man, kind, [82], +
• Smith, Sergt. W. F., clerk, [129]
• "snack?" or snake? [49]
• sorghum syrup issued, [94]
• soup, so called (or broth), [44], [94], [102]
• spittoon mystery, solved? [78]
• spoon, carving of, [83], [141] [(note)]
• "spoon fashion," lying in, [105]
• "Spoon"! significance of, [105]
• Sprague, Bvt. Col. H. B., passim, and [143] [(note)]
• stampede, Yankee, [11], [12];
  • Confederate, [18], [23]
• Stanton, E. M., War Secretary, [147], [148]
• State, allegiance to, [39]
• Staunton, Va., march to, [2], [28]
• Staunton, arrival and breakfast at, [32], [33]
• Staunton, Morgan's guerrilla kind at, [33], [34]
• stealing rations from guards, haversacks, [77]
• Stephens, Hon. Alexander H., [146], [147]
• "Storming Column" at Port Hudson, [7]
• "Stove Brigade," at Danville, [79]
• stoves in prison at Danville, [79], [95]
• Strasburg, Va., [20]
• Strickland, undertaker, [129]
• Stuart, Dr. Moses, on slavery, [29]
• subjugation policy, Lincoln's, [151]
• sunrise on the Blue Ridge, [36]
• sutler, Confederate, [84]
• swearing, copious, of two kinds, [14], [15], [39]
• sweeping the floors, [87], [100]
• Swepson, George W., very kind, [49], [50]

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