Between February 1864 and April 1865, 41,000 Union prisoners of war were taken to the stockade at Anderson Station, Georgia, where nearly 13,000 - one-third of them - died. Most contemporary accounts placed the blame for the tragedy squarely on the shoulders of the Confederates who administered the prison or on a conspiracy of higher-ranking officials.

Preface --I find me in a gloomy wood -- All hope abandon -- Then spoke the thunder -- A Deep and muddy river -- But yet the will roll'd onward -- Each in his narrow cell forever laid -- April is the cruelest month -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sources and acknowledgments -- Index.