A

• Adams, Dr. Nehemiah, 29
• Adams, Sarah F., quoted, 35
• ambulance, 37, 38
• annihilation threatened, 23
• apothecary doctor, 108, 109
• Appendix, court record, 153-156
• apple-jack, 39
• Army of West Va., 4, 5, 6
• artillery, trained on us, 51, 58
• at in "Where is he at?" 73, 75
• attempt to break out, 113, 118
• autographs, officers', 136

B

• Barnes, J. K., Surgeon-Gen., 146
• battle, pomp of, 8, 134
• battle-field, Winchester, 3 +
• beans, soup of, ration, 44, 94, 102
• Beecher, Henry Ward, quoted, 30
• Beecher, married by, 52
• Berryville, 3
• Berryville pike, 3, 4, 7
• Birge, Gen. H. W., 7, 9
• blanket for several, 105
• blankets "confiscated," 46
• blankets, not to be shaken, 87
• Blinn, Col. C. D., ill, 7
• Blue Ridge, 1, 35, 36
• Braxton's Confed. artillery, 9
• bread, corn-cob-meal, 44, 93, 100
• breakfast at Staunton, 32, 33
• breakfast at Tom's Brook, 21
• Breckenridge, Confed. Gen., 5
• Brinton, Col., escape of, 26, 27
• brooms in prison, 100, 102
• Brown, John, defended, 28
• Brownell, H. H., quoted, 137
• Browning, Mrs., quoted, 36, 83, 91
• buckets for water, 98, 110, 116
• Buckingham, Gov. of Conn., 7, 129
• "Bucktail Regiment," 64, 130
• burning $400, 138
• Burrage, Major H. S., 117, 120, 142
• Bush, Lieut. W. W., 93, 96
• "Butler's dandy regiment," 7 (note)
• Byron, Lord, quoted, 28
• Byron, Major John W., 87
• Byrne, Major John, 64, 66, 141

C

• cards, playing, 102, 106, 141
• Carle, Col. James, 64, 66, 80
• carving in prison, 49, 83, 101, 141
• cavalry, 4, 5, 6, 13, 25, 34, 40, 45
• chaplain, prisoner, 57, 58, 80
• charge, Gordon's brilliant, 10, 12
• Chautauqua, Mountain Lake, 121
• checkers, 92, 102, 141
• Cheever, Dr. Geo. B., 29
• chess, 92, 102, 141
• choosing death, 124, 125, 133, 134, 136, 143, 153
• Clarke, Adjt. James A., 22, 96, 101, 117, 143, 153
• clergymen's visits, 121, 122
• Clover, in it at night, 47
• coal, poor and scanty, 79
• coal dust, very fine! 48
• cold, severe and fatal, 79, 132, 142
• communication, finger signs, 65, 70
• communication, secret, 43, 70
• Confederate currency, 27, 32, 33, 34, 94, 121, 140
• Cook, Capt. William, 58, 85, 96, 103, 105, 143
• cooking, how and where, 21, 95
• Constitution, U. S., 29, 39, 47
• Corcoran, Gen. Michael, 53
• corn-cob-meal bread, 44, 93, 100, 107
• corn-cob-meal soup, 94, 102
• court martial in prison, 88; and Appendix, 153
• Crew, John, a kind enemy, 28
• Crook, Gen. George, 4

D

• daily routine, Danville, 97-105, 140, 141
• Dame, Rev., preaches to us, 121
• Dan river, 79, 98
• Danville, arrival at, 47, 48;
  • again, 77
• Danville death record, 129, 132, 142, 144
• Danville prisons, 98, 129
• Davies's Legendre, 140 (note)
• Davis, Jefferson, 150
• Davis, Lieut., death of, 57, 58, 68
• dead lines, Salisbury, 54
• deaf-and-dumb alphabet, 65, 70
• deaths at Salisbury, 55, 130, 134, 136, 145
• deaths of Confederates in northern prisons, 146
• deaths at Danville, 129, 132, 136, 145
• Declaration of Independence, 47
• defile, Berryville, 3, 4, 7
• devastation by Sheridan, 2, 3
• diary kept, 22, 28, 44
• Dickerman, Capt. G. M., 32
• discussion with Lieut. Howard, 28, 29, 30
• discussions in prison, 47, 90, 91, 102, 110, 141
• distribution of rations, 54, 100
• Dolan, pitied by Confederate ladies, 37
• DuffiÉ, Gen. O. N., 113-117
• Dwight, Gen. William, 12, 13

E

• Early, Gen. Jubal A., 5, 9, 14, 17
• Edenburg village, 26
• education in prison, 69, 70, 91, 92, 140
• Eighth Corps, W. Va. Army, 4, 5, 6
• Election votes in prison, 90
• Emerson, Rev., prison chaplain, 58, 80
• enlist or die, choice to, 133, 134
• Epaminondas, strategy at Leuctra, 10
• "escape on the brain," 67
• escapes attempted, 26, 50, 110
• Estabrooks, Lieut. H. L., 72, 74, 142, 143 (note)
• exchange of prisoners, 83, 89, 102, 131
• exchange blocked, 89, 90, 106, 107, 124, 131, 147-151

F

• Ficklin, J. F., his kindness, 125-129, 131
• Fisher, First Sea Lord, quoted, 57
• Fisher's Hill, battle, 25
• Fisher's Hill reached, 20
• "flag-of-truce fever," 106, 107, 108
• fleas, wicked, 27
• flour ration, how cooked, 21
• Fontleroy, Dr., his hospitality, 32, 33
• freemasonry, very useful, 38, 40, 42, 46
• French, oral lessons in, 69, 70
• Fry, Major W. H., 85
• fugitive slave law, 29, 30
• fun, critical and sarcastic, 104, 105
• fun, sanitary, 79, 80
• furnace way of escape, 110
• Furness, Horace Howard, 129

G

• Gardner, Adjt. W. C., 69, 70, 71, 74, 85, 107, 108, 109, 142, 143
• Gee, Confed. Major, 52, 53, 56, 74
• German, oral lessons in, 92
• Ghost in Hamlet, 85, 86
• "God's Country," 137
• God's fugitive slave law, 29
• "going through" prisoners, 22
• Gordon, Confed. Gen. J. B., 5, 10, 17
• Gordon's brilliant charge, 10, 13
• gorge of Berryville pike, 3, 4, 10
• gorilla or guerrilla, which? 39, 40
• grain cars at Danville, 48
• Grant's merciless orders, 2
• Greek Testament, kept, 42;
  • stolen, 80
• greenbacks burned, 138
• greenbacks, relative value of, 23, 24, 41, 140
• Greensboro, N. Carolina, 48
• Gregg, Lieut.-Col. Theodore, 64, 85
• Grover, Gen. Cuvier, 5, 6, 8, 12
• guerrilla, "I'm a guerrilla," 59
• guerrilla, Morgan's, a kind gentleman, 34
• gun cotton, cushion suspected, 45, 46

H

• hake, issued in rations, 94
• Hall, Rev. Charles K., kind, 122
• Hamlet, rehearsal, 85, 86
• Handy, Lieut., aide to Molineux, 11
• Hartshorne, Col. W. Ross, 64, 66, 67, 68, 115, 130
• Haslett, Capt., Provost Marshal, 26, 37, 38
• Haurand, Major August, 22, 66
• Hayes, Gen. Joseph, 53, 61, 65, 67, 92, 141
• Hayes, Gen., on court martial, Appendix, 156
• health, surely failing, 123
• Henry, Patrick, cited, 30
• "Hide your greenbacks," 41
• hole in the brick wall, 43
• Holland, J. H., imaginary, 128
• Homer, quoted, 80;
  • puzzled to death, 99
• Hooper, Lieut.-Col. C. H., 41, 54, 100, 115
• horse lost in battle, 10, 11, 19
• hospital in Danville, 106, 132
• hostage, Lt. Manning held as, 60
• Howard, Confed. Lieut., 28, 29, 30
• Howe, Capt. Wesley C., 22, 50, 72, 109, 110, 141

I

• Imboden, J. D., Confed. Gen., 25
• Indiana soldiers, acrobats, 24
• innocent deliberately slain, 152
• international war, 152
• Irish Bend, La., battle, wounded in, 89

J

• James river, 46, 137
• Jefferson, Thomas, quoted, 31
• Jersey lightning, apple-jack? 39
• Johnson's Island prison, 126
• Jonah, disgorged like, 49
• Jordan, H. T., 126, 127

K

• Keifer, Gen. J. W., 9
• Kerrstown, 20

L

• Ladies, Confed., kind and handsome, 37
• Lee, Gen. Fitzhugh, 5;
  • wounded, 13
• Legendre, Davies's, 113, 140 (note)
• letters from outside, 88, 89, 96, 132
• Libby prison, 40-44, 112, 144
• lice in prison, 102, 103, 132
• lice of Egypt, not "in it," 80
• Lincoln, Abraham, quoted, 47, 48
• Lincoln on exchange of prisoners, 89, 90, 125
• Lincoln on right of revolution, 47, 48
• Lloyd, J. J., returns from desertion, 133
• Lockwood, Capt., killed, 77
• log houses for officers, 52, 53
• Longfellow, quoted, 136
• Lovelace, poet, quoted, 89

M

• Manning, Lieut. W. C., tunnel, 60, 61, 65
• Mark Tapley's "jolly" example, 38
• Marmion, Scott's, quoted, 37
• martyrs in reality, 133, 134, 136
• Mason, Capt. Frank H., 92, 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
• pediculidÆ 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, 99-103, 111, 112
• rope ladder, twisted rags, 111, 112
• rules adopted in prison, 87, 88, 141, 153
• Russell, Sergt. Alfred, 89
• Russell, Gen. D. A., killed, 13
• Russell, Martha, 89
• Russell, Gen. W. H., 128

S

• Sadler, Major David, 66
• Salisbury prison, 50-55; 61, 130, 133, 134, 136
• sandwiches, G. W. Swepson's, 49
• sanitary measures, 79, 80, 103, 141, 142
• Sargent, Lieut, of 14th N. H., 23
• Scott, Sir Walter, quoted, 8, 37, 134, 135
• scurvy prevalent, 123, 142
• searching of prisoners, 41, 42, 119
• seceded states, a real nation? 150, 151
• sentries' sing-song call, 44
• sermons in prison, 57, 58, 121, 122
• "Set the table for dinner," 96
• Shakespeare, quoted, 36, 118, 119
• Shakespeare's Hamlet, 85, 140
• shelter, lack of at Salisbury, 53, 55, 136
• Shenandoah river and valley, 1, 2
• Sheridan's devastation, 1, 2, 3
• Sherman, Gen. W. T., quoted, 1
• "shot twice into inch pieces," 24
• Simpson, Lieut. J. B.; his sly trick, 77
• singing at evening at Danville, 104, 141
• Sixth Corps, 4, 5, 6, 10, 13
• "skirmishing" a misnomer, 102, 103
• slavery doomed in any event, 149
• "Slim Jim," 101
• Small, Major Adner A., 142
• Smith, Robert C., Confed. commandant, 81, 82
• Smith, Col. Robert C., Yale man, kind, 82, +
• Smith, Sergt. W. F., clerk, 129
• "snack?" or snake? 49
• sorghum syrup issued, 94
• soup, so called (or broth), 44, 94, 102
• spittoon mystery, solved? 78
• spoon, carving of, 83, 141 (note)
• "spoon fashion," lying in, 105
• "Spoon"! significance of, 105
• Sprague, Bvt. Col. H. B., passim, and 143 (note)
• stampede, Yankee, 11, 12;
  • Confederate, 18, 23
• Stanton, E. M., War Secretary, 147, 148
• State, allegiance to, 39
• Staunton, Va., march to, 2, 28
• Staunton, arrival and breakfast at, 32, 33
• Staunton, Morgan's guerrilla kind at, 33, 34
• stealing rations from guards, haversacks, 77
• Stephens, Hon. Alexander H., 146, 147
• "Storming Column" at Port Hudson, 7
• "Stove Brigade," at Danville, 79
• stoves in prison at Danville, 79, 95
• Strasburg, Va., 20
• Strickland, undertaker, 129
• Stuart, Dr. Moses, on slavery, 29
• subjugation policy, Lincoln's, 151
• sunrise on the Blue Ridge, 36
• sutler, Confederate, 84
• swearing, copious, of two kinds, 14, 15, 39
• sweeping the floors, 87, 100
• Swepson, George W., very kind, 49, 50

T

• table-knife saw, Lieut. Titus's, 97, 111
• Tarbell, Capt. Doctor, assistant commissary, 54, 100
• Taylor, Bayard, quoted, 80
• tertium quid, solution of mystery, 78
• theatrical collapse at Danville, 85, 86
• Thirteenth Conn. Regt., very patriotic, 7
• Tiemann, Capt. W. F., 14, 15, 85, 109, 143
• Titus, Lieut. L. B., invents useful saw, 97, 111
• tobacco and the spittoon mystery, 78
• tobacco given us by kind clergyman, 122
• Tom's Brook, 20, 22, 23
• tooth-brush, second-hand, $300 offered, 140
• Torbert, Gen. Alfred T., 3, 4, 5, 6, 17
• trading with Confed. sentinels, 54, 120
• tunnel through the Blue Ridge, 35, 36
• tunneling at Salisbury, 60, 61;
  • Danville, 109, 110
• Turner, Nathaniel, inspector, Libby, 41
• Turner, Richard, commandant at Libby, 41, 45

U

• unguentum, two pounds called for, 81
• university students in prison at Danville, 140

V

• Vander Weyde, Lieut. Henry, artist, 101, 117
• vermin at Danville, 80, 81, 87, 131, 132
• view-point, all-important, 57
• votes in prison for President, Nov. 8, 90

W

• war, Admiral Fisher on its essence, 57
• war, Lieut. Gen. S. B. M. Young, quoted on, 57
• war, Gen. Wm. T. Sherman's "War is hell," 1
• Washington, George, Commander-in-chief, 73, 148
• Washington, Lieutenant, a Confederate, 83
• Washington, President, a Mason at Winchester, 18
• Washington wished slavery somehow ended, 30
• water parties under guard, 98, 110
• water scarce en route, 20;
  • at Salisbury, 56, 65, 75
• Watts, Isaac, quoted, 45
• Waynesboro, Va., 34, 35
• Webster, Daniel, 29
• Wesley, John, quoted, 152
• West Virginia, Army of, 4, 5
• "Where is he at?" 73
• Whittier, John G., quoted, 152
• Wilson, Cav. Gen. J. H., 4
• Winchester, Va., battle of, 3-15
• Winder, Confed. Gen. J. H., Supt. Prisons, 112
• wood, split without edge-tools, 97, 107
• Woolsey, T. D., President of Yale, 128

Y

• Yadkin river crossing, 72, 75
• Yale College men, 38, 49, 64, 69, 82
• Yankee ingenuity and skill, 83, 84, 97
• Y. M. C. A., of Richmond, 121
• Young, Lieut.-Gen. S. B. M., on war, 57