The Stars And Stripes In Rebeldom

War is measured in battles; captivity measures the soul. Cold walls. Hunger. Long nights.The Stars And Stripes In Rebeldom is a civil war prison memoir unlike a single, smoothed narrative: it is a primary source collection of papers written by Federal privates, preserved by William Carnes Bates, from prisons in Richmond, Tuscaloosa, New Orleans and Salisbury, N.C., with an appendix of supporting matter. In direct, workaday language, union prisoners of war record captivity camp life as it unfolds -- rations and sickness, hope and boredom, faith, anger, ingenuity, and the quiet economies that keep men alive. Read as a historical documents anthology, the volume brings you inside confederate prison conditions in richmond virginia prisons and the salisbury north carolina prison, while also illuminating the wider conversation of andersonville prison accounts. It also speaks to readers drawn to a libby prison narrative, not as legend, but as lived routine.For casual readers, these pages carry the pressure of real days; for collectors and historians, they remain a steady civil war research source and a practical military history reference, prized for their immediacy and their refusal to romanticise. Its importance lies in the ordinary soldier’s view of policy made personal, and in the way scattered notes become a coherent record of endurance, anger and allegiance, kept close to events, not later argument. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector’s item and a cultural treasure.