Chautauqua, Mountain Lake, 121 checkers, 92, 102, 141 Cheever, Dr. Geo. B., 29 chess, 92, 102, 141 choosing death, 124, 125, 133, 134, 136, 143, 153 Clarke, Adjt. James A., 22, 96, 101, 117, 143, 153 clergymen's visits, 121, 122 Clover, in it at night, 47 coal, poor and scanty, 79 coal dust, very fine! 48 cold, severe and fatal, 79, 132, 142 communication, finger signs, 65, 70 communication, secret, 43, 70 Confederate currency, 27, 32, 33, 34, 94, 121, 140 Cook, Capt. William, 58, 85, 96, 103, 105, 143 cooking, how and where, 21, 95 Constitution, U. S., 29, 39, 47 Corcoran, Gen. Michael, 53 corn-cob-meal bread, 44, 93, 100, 107 corn-cob-meal soup, 94, 102 court martial in prison, 88; and Appendix, 153 Crew, John, a kind enemy, 28 Crook, Gen. George, 4 D daily routine, Danville, 97-105, 140, 141 Dame, Rev., preaches to us, 121 Dan river, 79, 98 Danville, arrival at, 47, 48; again, 77 Danville death record, 129, 132, 142, 144 Danville prisons, 98, 129 Davies's _Legendre_, 140 (note) Davis, Jefferson, 150 Davis, Lieut., death of, 57, 58, 68 dead lines, Salisbury, 54 deaf-and-dumb alphabet, 65, 70 deaths at Salisbury, 55, 130, 134, 136, 145 deaths of Confederates in northern prisons, 146 deaths at Danville, 129, 132, 136, 145 Declaration of Independence, 47 defile, Berryville, 3, 4, 7 devastation by Sheridan, 2, 3 diary kept, 22, 28, 44 Dickerman, Capt. G. M., 32 discussion with Lieut. Howard, 28, 29, 30 discussions in prison, 47, 90, 91, 102, 110, 141 distribution of rations, 54, 100 Dolan, pitied by Confederate ladies, 37 Duffie, Gen. O. N., 113-117 Dwight, Gen. William, 12, 13 E Early, Gen. Jubal A., 5, 9, 14, 17 Edenburg village, 26 education in prison, 69, 70, 91, 92, 140 Eighth Corps, W. Va. Army, 4, 5, 6 Election votes in prison, 90 Emerson, Rev., prison chaplain, 58, 80 enlist or die, choice to, 133, 134 Epaminondas, strategy at Leuctra, 10 "escape on the brain," 67 escapes attempted, 26, 50, 110 Estabrooks, Lieut. H. L., 72, 74, 142, 143 (note) exchange of prisoners, 83, 89, 102, 131 exchange blocked, 89, 90, 106, 107, 124, 131, 147-151 F Ficklin, J. F., his kindness, 125-129, 131 Fisher, First Sea Lord, quoted, 57 Fisher's Hill, battle, 25 Fisher's Hill reached, 20 "flag-of-truce fever," 106, 107, 108 fleas, wicked, 27 flour ration, how cooked, 21 Fontleroy, Dr., his hospitality, 32, 33 freemasonry, very useful, 38, 40, 42, 46 French, oral lessons in, 69, 70 Fry, Major W. H., 85 fugitive slave law, 29, 30 fun, critical and sarcastic, 104, 105 fun, sanitary, 79, 80 furnace way of escape, 110 Furness, Horace Howard, 129 G Gardner, Adjt. W. C., 69, 70, 71, 74, 85, 107, 108, 109, 142, 143 Gee, Confed. Major, 52, 53, 56, 74 German, oral lessons in, 92 Ghost in _Hamlet_, 85, 86 "God's Country," 137 God's fugitive slave law, 29 "going through" prisoners, 22