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قراءة كتاب The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion
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The Bright Side of Prison Life Experience, In Prison and Out, of an Involuntary Soujouner in Rebellion
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.
In 1856 occurred my marriage to Miss Eliza H. Van Cleve, and no man could be more happily wedded. For thirty-eight years, until her recent death, on April 13, 1894, our life was as much of a honeymoon as it is possible for a well-mated couple to make it.
I had learned