TRAGEDY OF ANDERSONVILLE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. -- Motive Shown for the Publication of the Evidence Taken at the Trial of Wirz -- Charges Made by Jefferson Davis in 1890 -- The Revival of these Accusations by the, United Daughters of the Confederacy, in 1905, that Wirz Was "Judicially Murdered" -- Erection of Monument to Wirz in 1909 at Andersonville -- False and Misleading Inscriptions on the Monument -- Protest of the Grand Army of the Republic -- Proceedings at National Encampment in 1906 at Minneapolis -- Important Feature of Trial -- Exposure of Confederate Policy and Its Guilty Participation in Crime- -- More Union Soldiers Died at Andersonville Than Killed in Action in Combined Battles of Second Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellor -- CHAPTER II. -- Jefferson Davis and Andersonville -- His Published Article Briefly Outlined and Its Specific Charges Noted and Examined -- Some Gross Misstatements Corrected -- His Accusations Revived and Reasserted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy by Inscriptions on the Wirz Monument -- Issues of Wirz's Defenders and Confederacy Clearly Defined-Charg -- Charge Refuted That Federal Government Responsible for Deaths. -- CHAPTER III. -- Some Hitherto Unpublished Facts -- Organization of the Court -- The Charges and Specifications -- Special Pleas Interposed -- Jurisdiction of the Court -- Once in Jeopardy -- Right of Parole Claimed -- Argument -- Pleas Overruled -- Facts as to Wirz's Arrest -- Wirz Pleads Not Guilty -- Rules of Procedure -- Circumstances of Wirz's Arrest -- Wirz's Military Status -- His Place of Burial -- The True Significance of the Trial -- CHAPTER IV. -- Location of Andersonville Prison -- Description of the Prison Pen -- Wirz Assigned to Its Command -- Early Condition of the Prisoners Deplorable -- Official Reports of Rebel Officers.

Injunction to Abate Prison as a Nuisance Because of Noxious Odors -- Upon Whom Rested Responsibility of -- Origin of Dead Line -- Rebel Authorities at Richmond Informed -- Mortality Increased -- In One Month 2,993 Died. -- CHAPTER V. -- Condition of the Prison Continued -- Sufferings of Prisoners Depicted -- Report of Colonel D. T. Chandler -- Report of Dr. Joseph Jones -- Causes of Sickness and Death Shown -- Responsibility Fixed -- Confederate Authorities at Richmond Had Full Knowledge -- Colonel Chandler's Testimony -- Testimony of Dr. Jones -- Six Square Feet to the Man -- Barely Room to Comfortably Lie Down -- Inadequate Police Control -- Prisoners Try, Condemn, and Hang Six of Their Number -- Prisoners Murdered by Their Fellow-Prisoners for Their Clothing and Food -- The Bodies of the Dead Mutilated -- Reports by Surgeon Stevenson, Surgeon White, and Surgeon Thornburg -- Dr. Jones's Report Graphic Description of Prison and Hospital -- Causes of Death and Unparalleled Suffering -- CHAPTER VI. -- Conditions at the Prison (continued) -- Reports and Testimony of Surgeons on Duty at the Prison, Namely: Dr. Amos Thornburg: Dr. F. T. Castlen: Dr. G. S. Hopkins -- D -- Testimony of Dr. William Balser, Who Had Occasion to Treat a Large Number of Prisoners from Andersonville on Their Way to Fre -- They were Living Skeletons -- Seventy-five Per Cent of Dead Might Have Been Saved by Proper Care -- Actual Square Feet to Man 27, or 3 by 9 Feet -- CHAPTER VII. -- Conditions at Andersonville Continued -- Testimony of Rev. Father Hamilton -- No Shelter from Sun or Storms -- Father Hamilton Crawled into Burrows to Administer Last Sacrament to Dying -- Prisoners Covered with Vermin -- Testimony of Citizens Living in the South -- Publicity of the Suffering of Prisoners -- Supplies Were Obtainable and Sufficient to Have Sustained the Prisoners.

Prisoners Might Have Been Sheltered -- The Prison Might Have Been Enlarged -- Means of Transportation Available -- Supplies Sent by Sanitary Commission -- CHAPTER VIII. -- Testimony of Union Soldiers, Prisoners at Andersonville -- Their Descriptions of the Horrors of That Prison Pen -- Personal Experiences -- Men Fight for Room to Lie Down -- Private Property Taken from Them -- Testimony of Major-General J. H. Wilson and Colonel George Welling of the U. S. Army on Condition of Prison at Close of th -- Simple Remedies Pointed Out -- General Wilson Concludes that There was Sinister Design in the Location and Its Restricted Area -- Goldwin Smith's Opinion of Treatment of Prisoners on Both Sides -- General Sherman Found Supplies Abundant in Georgia in 1864 -- CHAPTER IX. -- Conditions at Prison (continued) -- Testimony of Father Hamilton and Other Witnesses Called for the Defense -- Horrors of the Prison Pen Confirmed -- Witnesses for Defense Corroborate Testimony of the Prosecution in Many Essential Particulars -- Diary of Rev. Father Clavereul -- Father Clavereul's Account a Most Pathetic Picture of Human Suffering -- CHAPTER X. -- Treatment of Prisoners (continued) -- Cruel and Inhuman Punishments Inflicted -- Balls and Chains Used as Means of Punishment -- Prisoners Confined in the Stocks and Left Exposed to the Weather -- The "Dead-Line" and Its Attendant Perils -- Ferocious Dogs Used to Hunt Down Escaping Prisoners -- Prisoners Torn and Mutilated by These Dogs -- Prisoners Die from Effects -- Impure and Deadly Vaccine Matter Used for Vaccination of the Prisoners, Causing Many Horrible Deaths -- Wirz Boasts of His Service to the Rebellion in Slaying Prisoners -- Revolting Manner of Handling and Burying the Dead -- Testimony of Rebel Witnesses Confirms Testimony of Wirz's Cruelty to Prisoners.

Report on Prisons by United States Sanitary Commission and Committee of House of Representatives -- CHAPTER XI -- Testimony of Witnesses for Defense upon the Specifications of Acts of Cruelty and of Murder in Violation of the Laws of War -- Man Shot on Dead Line -- Hunted Down by Dogs -- Put in Stocks and Chain Gang -- Wirz Kicked and Abused Prisoners -- Very Profane -- High Temper -- Carried Pistol -- Threatened to Use It -- Some Acts of Kindness Shown -- Witnesses Never Heard of His Killing or Treating a Prisoner Cruelly -- Negative Testimony -- CHAPTER XII. -- Testimony of Witnesses to the Charge of Murder- -- Prisoners Shot by Wirz -- Prisoners Shot by His Order -- Prisoners Killed by the Dogs -- Many Instances of Wirz's Brutality -- Men Killed by Being Shot in Stocks and Chain Gang -- CHAPTER XIII. -- Résumé of the Foregoing Chapters -- Some Comment upon and Deductions from the Evidence -- Mortuary Statistics -- Johnson's Island and Andersonville Compared -- Table of Deaths by Months -- Number of Dead at Andersonville, 13,171 -- Deaths in Twenty-five Federal Prisons in 1864 Compared with Andersonville -- Stockade and Its Terrors Described -- Condition of Prisoners Known at Richmond -- Hospital and Prison Co-ordinated to Destroy Life- -- The Conspiracy -- Charge of Murder -- Photograph of Johnson's Island Prison -- Statement of Soldiers on Duty There and at Fort Delaware Prison -- CHAPTER XIV. -- Some Interesting Facts as to the Preparation of the Case for Trial -- Personnel of the Court -- Proceedings at Close of the Trial -- Jurisdiction of the Court Discussed -- The Law and Facts as to Conspiracy Stated -- Review of the Record by the Judge Advocate-General -- Approval of the Sentence by the President -- Execution of the Sentence -- Law of Nations Systematically Violated -- Conditions Surrounding Prisoners Who Were Witnesses.

Burial of Wirz's Body -- CHAPTER XV. -- The Cartel Suspended -- Exchanging of Prisoners Interrupted -- Causes Therefor -- Violation of Cartel by Rebels -- Right to Exchange Denied to Negro Soldiers and Their Officers -- When Captured Treated as Felons -- Sufferings of Prisoners Due to Treatment They Received, not Because Cartel Was Suspended -- Rebel Commissioner Robert Ould, Maneuvering to Get Excess of Prisoners Held by Federals and Use Them at Critical Period of Wa -- Action of Our Government Fully Vindicated -- Report of General Hitchcock, Federal Com-missioner of Exchange, Covering Entire Subject -- Letter of General Grant, Part of Which is Inscribed on the Wirz Monument -- Interview with Colonel John McElroy, a Prisoner at Andersonville -- The Evolution of Slaves to the Status of United States Soldiers -- Some Interesting Facts About the Negro as a Soldier -- CHAPTER XVI. -- Andersonville Cemetery Made Beautiful -- Expedition in Spring of 1865 to Provide for Its Permanent Care -- Report of Captain Jas. M. Moore, U. S. A. -- Important and Interesting Report of Clara Barton, Founder of the Red Cross Society, to the American People -- Report of Dorence Atwater, Who Kept the Death Register, to the Relatives of the Martyred Dead -- Interesting Letter of Superintendent of Cemetery -- Inscriptions on State Monuments -- Patriotic Work Done by Woman's Relief Corps at Prison Park -- A Parting Word with the Reader by the Author -- Bill Pending in Congress to Appropriate Money by Government to Erect Monument to Confederate Navy -- Discussion in United States Senate -- Views Expressed in Public Press -- Dangerous Step for Government to Thus Give Official Sanction to Rebellion and Treason. -- INDEX -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Frontispiece-The Author -- Members of the Court -- Judge Advocates -- Group-Wirz Monument, Captain Wirz, Jefferson Davis.

Plan of Stockade.