  | PAGE | | CHAPTER I. | | I Enter the Army.—Taken Prisoner.—Sufferings on the Road to and at Richmond.—Leave Richmond for Danville.—Our Sojourn at the Latter Place.—The Small-pox.—Removal to Andersonville | 13 | | | CHAPTER II. | | Entrance into Andersonville Prison.—Horrible Sights.—The Belle Islanders.—The Kind of Treatment for first few Months.—Condition of Things generally during that Time.—New Prisoners.—Inauguration of Cruel Treatment.—Going out for Fuel and Shelter Prohibited.—Rations Diminished.—The Philosophy of Southern Prison Discipline.—Severities of Climate and Dreadful Suffering | 19 | | | CHAPTER III. | | The Chickamauga Men.—Personal Experiences and Sufferings.—Merchandising at Andersonville.—The Plymouth Men.—A God-send to the Old Residents.—“Popular Prices” | 28 | | | CHAPTER IV. | | Ravages of the Scurvy among the Chickamauga Prisoners.—Too long without Fruit and Vegetables.—The Horrors of the Scurvy.—Certain Death.—Frightful Mortality.—Fortunate Removal from Andersonville.—Arrival at Charleston, S. C.—Transferred to Florence, S. C.—Description of the latter Prison.—Shortest Rations ever Issued.—Certain Starvation on the Rations.—Efforts for more Food.—Providential Success.—Three Days without Rations.—Prison-Keepers Cruel and Inhuman.—Terrible Sufferings during the Winter.—Unparalleled Mortality.—Raw Rations and Insufficient Fuel.—Life under Ground.—Swamp Fever.—Taken with the Fever.—Flight from Florence.—Wilmington.—Goldsboro’.—Hard Times of a Sick Man.—Prison Exchange Foolery.—Back to Wilmington | 34 | | | CHAPTER V. | | Return to Goldsboro’.—Drunk with Fever.—Too Sick to Walk.—Left Behind.—God Bless the Ladies of Goldsboro’.—Personal Experiences.—Negotiations for a Friend.—An Improvised Hospital.—Sick unto Death.—Semi-Consciousness.—More Kindness from the Ladies of Goldsboro’.—Paroled.—Passed into our Lines near Wilmington.—At Wilmington in the Hands of the Blue Coats.—Friend Lost.—Still very Sick with Fever.—Determined to go North.—Efforts to get North.—On board Ship.—Ho, for Annapolis.—Incidents of the Voyage.—Annapolis.—Getting Better.—Stomach Trouble.—Sent to Baltimore.—Furloughed Home | 44 | | | CHAPTER VI. | | At Home.—Nothing but a Skeleton.—A good Imitation of Lazarus.—A digression upon the Subject of Sleeplessness.—A well-intended Fraud on a Hospital Nurse.—Return of Sleep.—Improvement in Health.—Stomach the only Difficulty.—A Year passes.—Stomach Worse.—Constant Headache.—Much Debilitated.—Awful Suffering.—Bodily Agony Debilitates the Mind.—Sufferings Intolerable.—Physicians and Remedies Tried without Avail.—Forlorn Hope and Last Resort.—Better.—Doubts as to Treatment.—Suspicions Confirmed.—Uncomplimentary Remarks concerning an M. D.—Uncomfortable Discoveries and Reflections | 50 | | | CHAPTER VII. | | The War Begins.—Struggles to Renounce Opium.—Physical Phenomena Observed in attempting to Leave Off the Drug.—Difficulty in Abjuring the Fiend.—I Fail Absolutely.—Some Difference with De Quincey regarding the Effects of Opium.—A Preliminary Foresight into the Horrors of Opium | 61 | | | CHAPTER VIII. | | De Quincey’s Life rather than his Writings the Best Evidence of the Effect of Opium upon Him.—Disapproval of his Manner of Treatment of the Subject in His “Confessions.”—From First to Last the Effect of Opium is to Produce Unhappiness.—The Difference between the Effect of the Drug taken Hypodermically and Otherwise, Explained.—The various Effects of Opium, Stimulative and Narcotic, Described.—The Effect of my First Dose at the beginning of Habit.—Remarks of De Quincey on his First Dose.—My own Remarks as to First Dose.—Difference between Opium and Liquor.—Stimulation is followed by Collapse.—Melancholy from the Beginning.—Nervousness and Distraction of the Intellectual Powers.—Sleeplessness.—Different and Peculiar Influences of the Drug Detailed.—Pressure upon the Brain from Excessive Use of Opium.—Distress in the Epigastrium.—The Working of the Brain Impeded | 70 | | | CHAPTER IX. | | De Quincey versus Coleridge.—Stimulation and Collapse Considered.—The Use of Opium always to be Condemned.—Coleridge Defended.—Wretched State of the Opium Eater.—An Explanatory Remark | 77 | | | CHAPTER X. | | The Delusions and Miseries of the First Stages of Opium Eating | 82 | | | CHAPTER XI. | | Later Stages.—The Opium Appetite.—Circean Power of Opium.—As a Medicine.—Difference between Condition of Victim in Primary and Secondary Stages |
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