Alphabetical index to the Schoff Civil War CollectionsAmos E. Stearns Memoir
Subject Index
| Page number> | Subject |
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| Frontis. | Photograph of Amos E. Stearns |
| 1 | Capture at Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Va. (May 16, 1864) |
| 3 | Journey to Richmond; Rebel guard takes his tin cup of coffee |
| 4 | Passing the carnage on the battlefield |
| 5 | Rebel guards mistreat Penobscot Indian prisoner |
| 7 | Meets other prisoners from 25th Massachusetts at Ft. Darling; taking a gunboat to Richmond in very hot conditions |
| 8 | Description of officer commanding the gunboat |
| 9 | Crowds in Richmond to see Yankee prisoners; one of the Rebel guards from Massachusetts |
| 10 | Learning the rules in Libby Prison; getting medical attention for a friend shot by guard |
| 13-14 | Searching new prisoners; hiding money and valuables from the Rebel guards |
| 15 | Noted Union deserter and Rebel soldier Dick Turner; rations at Libby Prison |
| 19 | Journey to Andersonville Prison |
| 21 | Meeting wounded Rebel soldiers; women and children selling food to Yankee prisoners |
| 23 | Holding pen for prisoners in Augusta, Ga. |
| 24 | Pumping water by hose into the pen |
| 25 | Talking to Rebel civilians; their impressions of Union General Benjamin Butler (1818-1893) |
| 27 | Arrival at Andersonville Prison; first encounter with Henry Wirz, commandant of Andersonville; Yankee drummer boys put on "parole of honor" |
| 28 | First glimpse of prisoners in Andersonville: they look like "brown beavers" |
| 29 | Meets friend from Co. D, Preston A. Champney |
| 30 | Makes mud hut with Charles L. Rice and Joseph C. Plumb but rain destroys, so they look for shelter with others |
| 31 | Sleeping without shelter |
| 32 | Need blanket to get accepted into existing shelters |
| 33 | Moves into Campney's shelter; description of the shelter |
| 34 | Dispensing rations: squad system; some prisoners get cooked rations, some get raw |
| 36 | Description of mush and other rations |
| 40 | Ration trading and trading for tobacco |
| 41 | Rebels occassionally cut off rations; "raiders" and stealing among prisoners |
| 43 | Prisoner police force and court to deal with raiders |
| 45 | Wirz's punishment of raiders |
| 46 | Trial and hanging of prisoners found guilty of murder; General William T. Sherman (1820-1891) reported to have approved of action |
| 50 | Overcrowding means no room to walk when prisoners lay down to sleep at night |
| 52 | Shortage of wood; death of Champney |
| 53 | His wood-selling business |
| 55 | "Exchange on the brain" is one of the most common diseases at Andersonville; disappointed hopes for exchange cause many to die |
| 58 | Heavy rain causes flooding in stockade |
| 61 | Freshwater spring appears in stockade |
| 62 | Trading rations; selling biscuit and sweet potato soup |
| 64 | Lice; prisoners who give up hope and will their deaths |
| 65 | Prisoners moved to Charleston, S.C. |
| 67 | Prisoners kept at fairgrounds outside Charleston |
| 68 | Prisoners moved to Florence, S.C. |
| 72 | Description of stockade at Florence |
| 74 | Smuggling beans into prison in hollow sticks of firewood |
| 76 | Death of a friend |
| 78 | Trading with Rebel guards for buttons; tricking the guards |
| 81 | Paroled at Wilmington, N.C. |
| 82 | Paid for time in prison (after enlistment term had expired) |
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