Recollections of 3 Rebel Prisons by G G Prey
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Overview: Col. Prey shares his observations as a Union officer captured with his regiment near Petersburg, VA, in August 1864 in this richly detailed account of the conditions and daily life in three Confederate prisons near the end of the Civil War. From the fateful battle where Prey was forced to surrender, through his several prison-bound journeys through the countryside where he witnessed for himself that the South is “about played out,” to the factories and warehouses that served as the prisons, readers will invariably share the misery of the soldiers’ cold and damp clothing, meager rations, frustrated escape plots, menacing “muggers,” and the overall filth and suffering that constituted their lives for six months, until their release in a prisoner exchange in February 1865.
This work, originally published in 1896, is reprinted by Milne Library at the State University of New York College at Geneseo as part of the Genesee Valley Historical Reprints series. The Genesee Valley Historical Collection is Milne Library’s largest and most accessible collection of local history materials. Its geographical scope covers the eight counties surrounding the Genesee River in New York State: Allegany, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Steuben and Wyoming.
Genre: Non Fiction | Military History> Civil War
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