Transcriber’s Notes Italic text enclosed with _underscores_. Small-capitals replaced by ALL CAPITALS. More notes appear at the end of the file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FIFTEEN MONTHS IN DIXIE ——OR—— MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN REBEL PRISONS. A Story of the Hardships, Privations and Sufferings of the “Boys in Blue” during the late War of the Rebellion. ——BY—— W. W. DAY, A PRIVATE OF 60. D. 10TH REGIMENT WISCONSIN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. OWATONNA, MINN. THE PEOPLE’S PRESS PRINT. 1889. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To my Comrades who, like myself, were so unfortunate as to have suffered the horrors of a living death in the Prison Pens of the South, and who, through all their hardships, privations, and sufferings, remained loyal to our FLAG, and to my beloved Wife, who suffered untold tortures of mind begotten by anxiety on account of the uncertainty of my fate, for fifteen long, weary, months,——this work is dedicated in F. C. & L. by THE AUTHOR. COPYRIGHT, 1889, BY W. W. DAY. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE. I have sometimes been in doubt whether a preface was necessary to this work; but have decided to write one, for the reason that in a preface the author is permitted to give the reader a “peep behind the scenes,” as he is not permitted to do in the body of the book. Since the commencement of the publication of this story, in a serial form, a few very good people have been so kind as to tell me, that it is “too late in the day” to write upon the subject of Rebel Prisons. My answer is: it is never too late to tell the story of what patriotic men suffered in the defence of Constitutional liberty, and of the Union of States, which union was cemented by the blood of our Revolutionary sires. It is never too late to tell the story of,— “Man’s unhumanity to man.”