“Semmes comments on a lengthy letter from Alexander H. Stephens, Crawfordsville, Georgia, November 5, 1864. July 1, 1858-September 18, 1862. James River plantation, near Richmond, Virginia.”
The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell is a large number of stories written by prisoners of war describing the privations and suffering of prison life, North and South, during the Civü War. The following narrative is similar in many respects to those…