necessity, military, defies every law, 151 negroes, loyal and kind, 111 negroes, prisoners of war, 78, 129 New Market, Va., 26, 27, 28 Newtown, V., 20 Nineteenth Corps, 4, 5, 6, 10, 66, 67 O occupations, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92; 97-105 O'Neil, Col., Yale classmate, killed, 64, 130 Opequon battle, 3-15 Opequon Creek, 3, 7 order to retreat, 11 Ould, R., Confed. Agt. for exchange, 151 ovens for baking, 110 overcoat saved, 19, 20, 42, 46, 105, 108, 109 P "painfully sober," 85 parole given, 53, 129 parole rejected, 53 _pediculidae vestimenti, non capitis_, 99, 100 Petersburg shelled, 45 Pharaoh's epidermis and obstinacy, 80 Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, 10 plots to break out, 61-75; 113-119 policing prison, 87, 100 prayer of chaplain Emerson, 58, 80 prey and pray, 121 Prey, Col. Gilbert G., 54, 115, 130 prison number 3, officers', 78, + prison 6, the worst of all, 131, 132 prison rules adopted, 87, 88 profanity of soldiers, 14, 15, 39, 87 Putnam, Adjt. G. Haven, 91, 92, 101, 110, 121, 140, 142 Q questions, amusing or ugly, 104, 105, 141 R Ralston, Col., killed, 61, 64, 66, 114, 118 Ramseur, S. D., Confed. Gen., 13, 15 rations, 44, 49, 56, 93, 94, 100, 102, 107, 124, 139 recapture of escaped officers, 112 recount made futile by trick, 111, 112 Redwood of Mobile, Yale classmate, 38 Reed, "shot into inch pieces," 24, 25, 26, 31 retaliation threatened, 60; done, 148 rheumatism, 123, 142 Richardson, Albert D., of _Tribune_, 52 Richmond, arrival at, 40, 136 Richmond, watching exploding shells, 45 Ricketts' Division, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12 riddle, fatal to the old poet, 99 riots in July, 1863, 133, 149 robbery of captives, 15, 22, 46 Rodes, Confed. General, 5; killed, 10, 13 roll-call nullified, 111, 112 roll-call sergt., queer, 99-103, 111, 112 rope ladder, twisted rags, 111, 112 rules adopted in prison, 87, 88, 141, 153 Russell, Sergt. Alfred, 89 Russell, Gen. D. A., killed, 13 Russell, Martha, 89 Russell, Gen. W. H., 128 S Sadler, Major David, 66 Salisbury prison, 50-55; 61, 130, 133, 134, 136 sandwiches, G. W. Swepson's, 49 sanitary measures, 79, 80, 103, 141, 142 Sargent, Lieut, of 14th N. H., 23 Scott, Sir Walter, quoted, 8, 37, 134, 135 scurvy prevalent, 123, 142 searching of prisoners, 41, 42, 119 seceded states, a real nation? 150, 151 sentries' sing-song call, 44 sermons in prison, 57, 58, 121, 122 "Set the table for dinner," 96 Shakespeare, quoted, 36, 118, 119 Shakespeare's _Hamlet_, 85, 140 shelter, lack of at Salisbury, 53, 55, 136 Shenandoah river and valley, 1, 2 Sheridan's devastation, 1, 2, 3 Sherman, Gen. W. T., quoted, 1 "shot twice into inch pieces," 24 Simpson, Lieut. J. B.; his sly trick, 77 singing at evening at Danville, 104, 141 Sixth Corps, 4, 5, 6, 10, 13 "skirmishing" a misnomer, 102, 103 slavery doomed in any event, 149 "Slim Jim," 101