The Union Captives: Additional Names of the Martyred Dead – 2-3
The Pennsylvania Oil Regions: “Rich as Mud” – 3-5
From the Army of the Potomac: Execution of Deserters – 5
Information Wanted – 5
The Situation: Operations of Gen. Thomas on Sunday – 7
Reinforcement of the Army: Important Order of the War Department – 7
The Great March: Review of Gen. Sherman’s Georgia Campaign – 7-11
News from Washington – 11
Thirty-Eighth Congress: Second Session – 11-12
Editorial: The Latest and Last Aspect of the War – 12-13
Editorial: The Oil Regions – 13
Necrology of the Southern Prison Pens – 13
Soldiers to the Front – 13-14
For perspective is the following.
Around 30,000 Union soldiers died in Confederate prisons, while roughly 26,000 Confederate soldiers died in Union prisons.
Both sides are guilty of prisoner abuse and neglect.
There was a relative on my mom’s side of the family who died in Andersonville. His tale is haunting (as told by letters he got out and letters of a friend who was there till after he died). Many of the pictures from Andersonville remind one of scenes from the barely alive Holocaust survivors at the Nazi concentration camps - a skeleton and not much more.