In Their Own Words	"Tales from a Civil War Prison" August 30, 1999

Experience the gory chaos of battle, the chilling moment of capture, and the reality of prison life. Feel the reverberations of the Civil War echoing in the lives of prisoners and their families after the war, stretching to the present. Even in two of the modern signatures below, we can trace pride in family names.

Lieutenant William B. Hardy, Private John Hardy, and Private Andrew Hardy War Stories The Enemy Comes to Dinner A Messmate Remembers	Lieutenant Elisha Miller Robinson The Stories They Told
Lieutenant Colonel John W. Inzer The Making of a Statesman Prison Life	Reverend Doctor James Durham West No Words A Good Fighter and A Good Loser The Capture
Edward W. Brown, Theodore Z. Brown, and Thomas W. Brown I Won't Sign the Oath Poor Ed	Captain Charles Norvell They Ate Rats and Horses A Mother Prays Baskets of Delicacies

Lieutenant Charles Henry Burks and Sergeant James Armstrong Burks A Tale of Two Brothers The Benchmarks of War

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