Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) "PRISON LIFE IN ANDERSONVILLE" This volume, Number 48 of the Author's Autograph Edition, limited to five hundred copies, is presented to In grateful appreciation for cordial support and financial patronage of the work. "Prison Life in Andersonville" With Special Reference to the Opening of Providence Spring _by_ John L. Maile A Veteran of Company F, Eighth Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry and afterward assigned as Lieutenant in the Twenty-eighth U. S. C. T., and for a time an unwilling guest in the Confederate Military prisons at Lynchburg and Danville, Va., Andersonville, Ga., Florence, S. C., and Salisbury, N. C. "One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore." --O. W. Holmes. GRAFTON PUBLISHING COMPANY WEST COAST MAGAZINE LOS ANGELES. COPYRIGHT 1912 BY JOHN L. MAILE LOS ANGELES, CAL. U. S. A. All Rights Reserved PRESS OF WEST COAST MAGAZINE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Commendation That the following narrative of Southern prison life should be written so many years after the occurrence of the events described is explained by the fact that the author has been urged by many friends to put on record his descriptions that have interested many people in the East, in the Interior and in the West. To Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the Woman's Relief Corps, allied organizations, and readers generally, I am glad to commend this book as giving a more particular account of the opening of Providence Spring than has before appeared. Appreciation of the strenuous days of the great Civil War will be revived, and the memories of Veterans, not a few will be refreshed by this interesting story. H. M. Triuble. Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Princeton, Illinois, March 2, 1912. [Illustration] Four years of war life. In five Confederate prisons. [Illustration: The Author in 1860. The Year Before Enlistment.] DEDICATION Dedicated to the Woman's Relief Corps, whose tender, thoughtful care has preserved the sacred memorials of the war, and to the memory of my COMRADES in arms who have answered the final call; to the age-worn remnant who still linger behind, and to the younger patriots of the present generation, to whom it is given, in the happier days of peace, to fight for their country the bloodless battles of righteousness and truth. TABLE _of_ CONTENTS CHAPTER. PAGE. I. The Writer's Credentials 19 II. View of a Confederate Prison 27 III. The Prison Commisariat 35 IV. A Dearth of Water 53