Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons

Chapter 12

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

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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