Libby, Andersonville, Florence

Excerpt from Libby, Andersonville, Florence: The Capture, Imprisonment, Escape and Rescue of John Harrold, an Union Soldier in the War of the Rebellion I have often been solicited to publish the details of my experience in the arinv during the Rebellion, including an account of my capture, imprisonment, and the perilous incidents connected with my escape; but a feeling of diffidence long restrained me, until I reflected that the record of a father's services, in the trying scenes of that period, was the only legacy I could leave to my five boys - four of whom were born before I enlisted. I shall enter into no description of the battles in which I participated, because I know that abler historians have performed that task better than I could. Nor can I give precise dates of all that occurred, from the fact that I was robbed of my diary by a rebel officer while a prisoner. My ignorance of the country through which I traveled prevents me from naming counties or districts; and I could only guess at distances, except where I received information from others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.