Email this article 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 Main Page | Doing Time | Q&A | In Their Own Words | Bulletin Board © 1999 by the Archaeological Institute of America www.archaeology.org/online/features/civil/words/ Share this page:   Share Stay up-to-date on news and new features on our website. Click here to sign up. Buy back issues: See what's available!

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