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Weather conditions -- Pennsylvania -- 1862-1865 -- Personal narratives, Pennsylvania -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives., City and town life -- Pennsylvania -- 1862-1865 -- Personal narratives
The 1863 volume in a series of 4 pocket diaries of previously unknown authorship. Written by Brigadier General George R. Snowden, a lieutenant at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, later the Major-General of the National Guard of Pennsylvania.
Narrative of privations and sufferings of United States officers and soldiers while prisoners of war in the hands of the Rebel authorities : being the report of a commission of inquiry, appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission. With an appendix
Narrative of privations and sufferings of United States officers and soldiers while prisoners of war in the hands of the Rebel authorities : being the report of a commission of inquiry, appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission. With an appendix containing the testimony
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
Testimony of deplorable conditions in Confederate prisons including: clothing, blankets, money, and personal items take upon arrival; suffering from starvation with daily diet often consisting only of cornmeal bread, occasional meat, beans or rice; overcrowding or lack of shelter causing freezing, lice, diarrhea; and being shot at without warning