ILLUSTRATIONS.
| Captain S. A. Swiggett, | [Frontispiece.] | |
| General F. M. Drake, | [18] | |
| Lieutenant Walter S. Johnson, | [39] | |
| Adjutant S. K. Mahon, | [69] | |
| Captain J. B. Gedney, | [79] | |
| Captain Thomas M. Fee, | [89] | |
| Captain Charles Burnbaum, | [94] | |
| Captain J. P. Rummel, | [115] | |
| Captain B. F. Miller, | [167] | |
| Sergeant E. B. Rocket, | [189] |
The Bright Side of Prison Life.
CHAPTER I.
PRELIMINARIES.
My first appearance in the United States was made on the 19th of May, A. D. 1834. I have no recollection of this important event, but am reliably informed that the given date is correct, and that Dorchester county, Maryland, was the locality. At that time I had no premonition of my future life in a rebel prison, and if anyone had told me of the fourteen months which were to be spent mostly in such a manner I should have paid no attention whatever.
The year 1855 found me in Blakesburg, Iowa, after having lived in Indiana during the three years following my removal from Maryland.