Chapter I: Front Matter

"PRISON LIFE IN ANDERSONVILLE"

This volume,
Number 48

of the Author's Autograph
Edition, limited to five hundred
copies, is presented to

In grateful appreciation
for cordial support and financial
patronage of the work.

"Prison Life in Andersonville"

With Special Reference to the
Opening of Providence Spring

_by_
John L. Maile

A Veteran of Company F, Eighth Regiment Michigan
Volunteer Infantry and afterward assigned as
Lieutenant in the Twenty-eighth U. S. C. T., and
for a time an unwilling guest in the Confederate
Military prisons at Lynchburg and Danville, Va.,
Andersonville, Ga., Florence, S. C., and Salisbury,
N. C.

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore."
--O. W. Holmes.

GRAFTON PUBLISHING COMPANY
WEST COAST MAGAZINE
LOS ANGELES.

COPYRIGHT 1912
BY JOHN L. MAILE

LOS ANGELES, CAL.
U. S. A.

All Rights Reserved

PRESS OF WEST COAST MAGAZINE
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Commendation

That the following narrative of Southern prison life should be written so many years after the occurrence of the events described is explained by the fact that the author has been urged by many friends to put on record his descriptions that have interested many people in the East, in the Interior and in the West.

To Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the Woman's Relief Corps, allied organizations, and readers generally, I am glad to commend this book as giving a more particular account of the opening of Providence Spring than has before appeared.

Appreciation of the strenuous days of the great Civil War will be revived, and the memories of Veterans, not a few will be refreshed by this interesting story.

H. M. Triuble.
Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Princeton, Illinois,
March 2, 1912.

Four years of war life.

In five Confederate prisons.

The Year Before Enlistment.]

DEDICATION

Dedicated to the Woman's Relief Corps, whose tender,
thoughtful care has preserved the
sacred memorials of the war, and
to the memory of my

COMRADES

in arms
who have answered
the final
call; to the age-worn
remnant who still linger
behind, and to the younger
patriots of the present generation,
to whom it is given, in the happier
days of peace, to fight for their country
the bloodless battles of righteousness and truth.

TABLE _of_ CONTENTS

CHAPTER. PAGE.

I. The Writer's Credentials 19

II. View of a Confederate Prison 27

III. The Prison Commisariat 35

IV. A Dearth of Water 53

V. A Cry to Heaven 61

VI. Unsealing of the Spring 65

VII. Was It a Miracle? 72

VIII. Deliverance 85

IX. An Incident by the Way 93

X. A Sequel 103