CAPTAIN WIRZ THE ONLY ONE OF THE PRISON-KEEPERS PUNISHED--HIS ARREST, TRIAL AND EXECUTION.
[CHAPTER LXXXIII.]
THE RESPONSIBILITY--WHO WAS TO BLAME FOR ALL THE MISERY--AN EXAMINATION OF THE FLIMSY EXCUSES MADE FOR THE REBELS--ONE DOCUMENT THAT CONVICTS THEM--WHAT IS DESIRED.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
(The Skipped Numbers were drawings unsuitable for copying.)
[1. Frontpiece]
[2. “War"]
[8. Cumberland Gap, Looking Eastward]
[4. A Cavalry Squad]
[5. The 'Rebels Marching Through Jonesville]
[6. 'Leven Yards Killing the Rebel]
[7. A Scared Mule Driver]
[8. Bugler Sounding “Taps"]
[9. Company L Gathering to Meet the Rebel Attack]
[10. The Major Refuses to Surrender]
[11. Ned Johnson Trying to Kill the Rebel Colonel]
[12. Girls Astonished at the Jacket Tabs]
[14. An East Tennesseean]
[15. A Rebel Dandy]
[17. Turner in Quest of British Gold]
[18. Barnacle backs Discouraging a Visit from a Soldier]
[19. Ross Calling the Roll]
[20. An Evening's Amusement with the Guards]
[21. Prisoners' Culinary Outfit]
[23. Skimming, the Bugs From My Soup]
[23. “Spooning"]
[24. A Richmond News Boy]
[25. “Say, Guard: Do You Want to Buy Some Greenbacks?"]
[26. A “N'Yaarker"]
[27. Decoying Boisseux's Dog to Its Death]
[28. The Dead Scotchman]
[29. Map of Georgia, South Carolina and part of North Carolina]
[30. Cooking Rations]
[31. General John W. Winder]
[32. A Field hand]
[33. Scaling the Stockade ]
[34. Captain llenri Wirz]
[35. The Prize-fight for the Skillet]
[36. Killing Lice by Singeing]
[37. Stripping the Dead for Clothes]
[38. A Plymouth Pilgrim]
[40. Midnight Attack of the Raiders]
[41. Ignominious End of a Tunnel Enterprize]
[42. Tunneling]
[43. Tattooing the Tunnel Traitor]
[44. Overpowering a Guard]
[45. A Master of the Hounds]
[46. Hounds Tearing a Prisoner]
[47. Shot at the Creek by the Guard]
[48. Cooking Mush]
[49. Seitz on Horseback]
[50. Finding Seitz Dead]
[51. A Case of Scurvy]
[52. Confiscating Soft Soap]
[63. Religious Services]
[54. The Priest Anointing the Dying]
[55. Raider Fight with one of Ellett's Marine Brigade]
[56. Key Bluffing His Would-be Assassins]
[67. Rebel Artillerists Training the Cannon on the Prison]
[58. Overthrow of the Raiders]
[59. Arrest of Pete Donnelly]
[60. Death of the Sailor]
[61. Execution of the Raiders]
[63. Sergeant A. R, Hill, 100th O. V. I.]
[63. “Spanking” a Thief]
[64. The Wounded Illinois Sergeant]
[65. The Idiotic Flute-Player]
[66. One of Sherman's “Veterans"]
[67. “You Hear Me"]
[68. Logan Taking Command of the Army of the Tennessee]
[69. Death of M'Pherson]
[70. The Work of a Shell]
[71. The Fight for the Flag]
[72. In the Rifle-pit After the Battle]
[73. Taken In]
[74. The Author's Appearance on Entering Prison]
[75. His Appearance in July, 1864]
[76. Little Red Cap]
[77. “Fresh Fish"]
[78. Interior of the Stockade, Viewed from the Southwest]
[79. Burying the Dead]
[80. The Graveyard at Andersonville, as the Rebels Left It]
[81. Denouncing the Southern Confederacy]
[82. The Charge]
[83. “Flagstaff"]
[84. Nursing a Sick Comrade]
[65. A Dream]
[86. The English Bugler]
[87. The Break in the Stockade]
[88. At the Spring]
[89. Morning Assemblage of Sick at the South Gate]
[91. Old Sailor and Chicken]
[92. Death of Watts]
[93. Planning Escape]
[94. Our Progress was Terribly Slow--Every Step Hurt Fearfully]
[95. “Come Ashore, There, Quick"]
[96. He Shrieked Imprecations and Curses]
[97. The Chain Gang]
[98. Interior of the Stockade--The Creek at the East Side]
[99. A Section from the East Side of the Prison Showing the Dead Line]
[100. “Half-past Eight O'clock, and Atlanta's Gone to H--l!”]
[101. Off for “God's Country"]
[102. Georgian Development of the “Proud Caucasian"]
[103. It was Very Unpleasant When a Storm Came Up]
[104. When We Matched Our Intellects Against a Rebel's]
[107. His New Idea was to have a Heavily Laden Cart Driven Around Inside the Dead Line]
[108. They Stood Around the Gate and Yelled Derisively]
[110. “See Heah; You Must Stand Back!”]
[111. He Bade Them Goodbye]
[112. “Wha-ah-ye!”]
[114. One of Ferguson's Cavalry]
[115. Then the Clear Blue Eyes and Well-remembered Smile]
[117. Millen]
[118. A House Builded With Our Own Own Hands]
[119. Our First Meat]
[120. A Lucky Find]
[121. Sergeant L. L. Key]
[124. “Where Are You Going, You D--d Yank?"]
[127. “Who Mout These Be?"]
[128. A Roadside View]
[129. The Charleston & Savannah Railroad]
[131. A Rice Field Girl]
[132. A Rice Swamp]
[133. A Scene in the “Burnt District"]
[134. The Part Where We Lay Was a Mass of Ruins]
[135. Ruins of St. Finbar Cathedral]
[136. The Unlucky Negro Fell, Pierced by a Score of Bullets]
[137. Recapture of the Runaways]
[139. “Take These Shears and Cut My Toes Off"]
[140. Corporal John W. January]
[142. Andrews Managed to Fish Out the Bag and Pass to Me Three Roasted Chickens]
[143. In God's Country at Last]
[144. Map of Wilmington and Neighborhood]
[148. The Infantry Assault on Fort Fisher]
[149. They Removed Every Trace of Prison Grime]
[152. Trial of Captain Wirz]
[153. Execution of Captain Wirz]
[154. “Peace"]
[INTRODUCTION.]
The fifth part of a century almost has sped with the flight of time since the outbreak of the Slaveholder's Rebellion against the United States. The young men of to-day were then babes in their cradles, or, if more than that, too young to be appalled by the terror of the times. Those now graduating from our schools of learning to be teachers of youth and leaders of public thought, if they are ever prepared to teach the history of the war for the Union so as to render adequate honor to its martyrs and heroes, and at the same time impress the obvious moral to be drawn from it, must derive their knowledge from authors who can each one say of the thrilling story he is spared to tell: “All of which I saw, and part of which I was.”