143
Masonic Hall, Winchester, 18
McIntosh's cavalry, 4
Meacham's Station, 38, 40
meat ration, 44, 93, 94
Mercutio's wound, 118, 119
Middletown in Shenandoah Valley, 20
Molineux, Col. E. L., 7, 9, 14
money concealed, 42, 119, 138
money, Confederate, 23, 32, 33, 34, 113, 140
Morgan's guerrillas, 34
Mortality in prison. _See_ under "deaths"
"Muggers," 51
N
Napoleon, his strategy, 10;
quoted, 135
nationality, northern, 149, 150
nationality, southern, 39, 150, 151
necessity, military, defies every law, 151
negroes, loyal and kind, 111
negroes, prisoners of war, 78, 129
New Market, Va., 26, 27, 28
Newtown, V., 20
Nineteenth Corps, 4, 5, 6, 10, 66, 67
O
occupations, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92; 97-105
O'Neil, Col., Yale classmate, killed, 64, 130
Opequon battle, 3-15
Opequon Creek, 3, 7
order to retreat, 11
Ould, R., Confed. Agt. for exchange, 151
ovens for baking, 110
overcoat saved, 19, 20, 42, 46, 105, 108, 109
P
"painfully sober," 85
parole given, 53, 129
parole rejected, 53
_pediculidae vestimenti, non capitis_, 99, 100
Petersburg shelled, 45
Pharaoh's epidermis and obstinacy, 80
Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, 10
plots to break out, 61-75; 113-119
policing prison, 87, 100
prayer of chaplain Emerson, 58, 80
prey and pray, 121
Prey, Col. Gilbert G., 54, 115, 130
prison number 3, officers', 78, +
prison 6, the worst of all, 131, 132
prison rules adopted, 87, 88
profanity of soldiers, 14, 15, 39, 87
Putnam, Adjt. G. Haven, 91, 92, 101, 110, 121, 140, 142
Q
questions, amusing or ugly, 104, 105, 141
R
Ralston, Col., killed, 61, 64, 66, 114, 118
Ramseur, S. D., Confed. Gen., 13, 15
rations, 44, 49, 56, 93, 94, 100, 102, 107, 124, 139
recapture of escaped officers, 112
recount made futile by trick, 111, 112
Redwood of Mobile, Yale classmate, 38
Reed, "shot into inch pieces," 24, 25, 26, 31
retaliation threatened, 60;
done, 148
rheumatism, 123, 142
Richardson, Albert D., of _Tribune_, 52
Richmond, arrival at, 40, 136
Richmond, watching exploding shells, 45
Ricketts' Division, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12
riddle, fatal to the old poet, 99
riots in July, 1863, 133, 149
robbery of captives, 15, 22, 46
Rodes, Confed. General, 5;
killed, 10, 13
roll-call nullified, 111, 112
roll-call sergt., queer,
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