Publisher's Synopsis
This is an autobiographical account of a young Confederate soldier from Alabama who was imprisoned at Camp Morton, Indiana. This is an excellent account in a very readable and succinct form. Wyeth was an early biographer of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was perhaps the leading doctor in America at the pinnacle of his career and president of the American Medical Association. There is a biographical sketch of Wyeth and an introduction by Dr. H. Rondel Rumburg.