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Title: Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons
A Personal Experience, 1864-5

Author: Homer B. Sprague

Release Date: January 21, 2008 [EBook #24385]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: Portraits of Fellow Officers in Prison

Left to right--Top line: Capt. Cook, Capt. Burrage
Middle line: Adj't. Gardner, Col. Sprague, Capt. Howe
Lower line: Lieut. Estabrooks, Adj't. Putnam]

_"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit"_

Lights and Shadows in
Confederate Prisons

A Personal Experience
1864-5

By

Homer B. Sprague, Ph.D.
Bvt.-Colonel 13th Conn. Vols.

Sometime Professor in Cornell and President of the University
of North Dakota

Author of "History of the 13th Conn. Inf. Vols.," "Right
and Wrong in our War between the States," and
"The European War, Its Cause and Cure"

_With Portraits_

G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1915

COPYRIGHT, 1915
BY
HOMER B. SPRAGUE

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst
more significant amendments have been listed at the end of the text.
Dialect and archaic spellings have been retained. The letter 'e'
with a macron has been transcribed as [=e].

TO
THE ALUMNI OF
THE UNIVERSITIES OF
YALE, CORNELL, AND NORTH DAKOTA

IN WHICH RESPEC