Title: Andersonville; a story of rebel military prisons
Description: "McElroy, with a detachment of his regiment, was guarding a supply route to Cumberland Gap when his entire company was captured in a surprise attack one morning during the winter of 1862-63. He and his comrades were taken to Lippy Prison, and from there they were sent to Andersonville. McElroy spent the rest of the war as a prisoner. His story of attempts at escape, of comrades tracked through cypress swamps by packs of vicious dogs, and of the everyday struggle just to stay alive, is one of the great stories of the Civil War"--Jacket.
Subjects: Prisoners of war, Prisoners and prisons, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Regimental histories, Illinois cavalry, Soldiers, Personal narratives, Andersonville Prison, Illinois Cavalry. 16th Regiment, 1861-1865, Biography, History, American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658, 16th Regiment, Fiction, general
Places: Andersonville, Georgia, United States
People: John McElroy (1846-1929)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865