FIVE HUNDRED DAYS IN REBEL PRISONS (Regimental History, 5th Iowa Infantry)

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BOOK DESCRIPTION; 12mo, 132 pgs., frontis portrait. Decorative blue cloth with black gilt titled cover. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Light rubbing and wear to edges and spine ends. Cover bright. Interior front hinge has been re-glued; pages are age-toned, else clean and tight. With clear, mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Charles Fosdick, a 19-year-old Iowa farm hand, enlisted for a term of three years in the Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Company K, on July 15, 1861 at Burlington, Iowa. His participation in the regiment's engagements included the capture of Island No. 10, the battles of New Madrid, Iuka, Corinth, and Champion's Hill. At Champion's Hill, Charles helped his critically wounded brother off the battlefield. After the battle and siege of Vicksburg, he received his promotion to Fifth Corporal on July 27, 1863. As a member of the color guard during the battle of Missionary Ridge (on Tunnel Hill) at Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 25, 1863, he and about ninety other members of the Fifth Iowa were taken prisoner. He spent most of the rest of the war in Andersonville Prison. Supposedly, no publisher at the time would handle this book because of the government efforts towards reconciliation. Fosdick self-published the book in 1887. REFERENCES: DORN IA #111; COULTER 168: "Many of Fosdick's statements are extremely bitter or wholly irresponsible and may be ignored as comments on conditions in the Confederacy. The book seems to have been designed to promote more and bigger pensions for Federal veterans and to serve as Republican campaign literature in the presidential election of 1888."; NEVINS I pg. 191; "Bitter recollections of an enlisted man's captivity at Belle Isle, Andersonville, and Florence; contains obvious Republican propaganda.". N° de ref. del artículo 0124009

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