Eighteen Months A Prisoner Under The Rebel Flag by Samuel S. Boggs
Feb. 2016
On September 20, 1863, at “about noon,” as the Army of the Cumberland under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans suffered one of the most significant Union defeats of the Civil War, Sergeant Samuel Boggs of the 21st Illinois Infantry found himself, along with many of his comrades, cut off from retreat, surrounded, and forced to surrender. Thus would begin eighteen months of the most hellish, inhumane, evil treatment imaginable; not through neglect, but by intentional premeditated decision at the highest levels of the Confederacy.
With Eighteen Months A Prisoner Under The Rebel Flag: A Condensed Pen-picture of Belle Isle, Danville, Andersonville, Charleston, Florence and Libby Prisons from Actual Experience, Mr. Boggs demonstrates convincingly the power of the first-person narrative. At times, his words seem to actually weep on the page. At other times, they practically melt the paper upon which they are printed (or your eReader in this case) with their anger and outrage. You, too, will feel some of that anger and outrage when you read how Union prisoners were treated during the Civil War.
With Eighteen Months A Prisoner Under The Rebel Flag: A Condensed Pen-picture of Belle Isle, Danville, Andersonville, Charleston, Florence and Libby Prisons from Actual Experience, Mr. Boggs demonstrates convincingly the power of the first-person narrative. At times, his words seem to actually weep on the page. At other times, they practically melt the paper upon which they are printed (or your eReader in this case) with their anger and outrage. You, too, will feel some of that anger and outrage when you read how Union prisoners were treated during the Civil War.