Death Does Seem to Have All He Can Attend To
Subtitle: The Civil War Diary of an Andersonville Survivor
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780786478903
Subjects: United states, army, infantry; Andersonville prison; Massachusetts, biography; Soldiers; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, personal narratives; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, prisoners and prisons; United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, campaigns
Description: "On August 7, 1862, George Alfred Hitchcock (born in Massachusetts in 1844) left home looking forward to a reunion with his older brother, Henry Sparhawk Hitchcock, and membership in Company A, 21st Massachusetts Infantry. From this date until January 1, 1865, Hitchcock kept a meticulous record of his daily activities in pocket diaries"--