Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: VIEW FROM THE MAIN GATE. Taken from rebel photographs of the prison when it contained thirty-five thousand men. Original picture in possession of the author.] MARTYRIA; OR, ANDERSONVILLE PRISON. BY AUGUSTUS C. HAMLIN. LATE MEDICAL INSPECTOR U. S. ARMY, ROYAL ANTIQUARIAN, ETC. _Illustrated by the Author._ BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD. 1866. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by A. C. HAMLIN, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Maine. Cambridge Press DAKIN AND METCALF. STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY. TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO STEADILY UPHELD THE CAUSE OF CIVIL LIBERTY, AND WHO PREFERRED LINGERING DEATH, IN THE MIDST OF UNPARALLELED PRIVATIONS AND HORRORS, RATHER THAN DISHONOR AND DENIAL OF THEIR BIRTHRIGHTS, _THIS BOOK_ IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. NOTE. The author presents for review neither style nor language: he offers simply the story of the wrong and the heroism, the cause and effect, as it rises in his mind. Neither does he, at this late date, seek to rekindle the smouldering embers of hate and conflict, nor, Antony-like, attack persons under the recital of the wrongs. Vengeance does not belong to the human race. There are times in the history of men when human invectives are without force. "There are deeds of which men are no judges, and which mount, without appeal, direct to the tribunal of God." AUGUSTUS CHOATE HAMLIN. BANGOR, September, 1866. MARTYRIA. [Illustration] "They never fail who die In a great cause. * * * * They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom." _Byron._ I. History weighs the social institutions of men in the scale of Humanity. Time, slowly but surely, accumulates the evidence which relates to their materials. It calmly but firmly unveils the statues which men erect as their principles, and with "that retributive justice which God has implanted in our very acts, as a conscience more sacred than the fatalism of the ancients," lays bare the secret springs of action which have prompted the deeds of heroism or baseness, of virtue or crime.