Excerpt from Eighteen Months a Prisoner Under the Rebel Flag: A Condensed Pen-Picture of Belle Isle, Danville, Andersonville, Charleston, Florence and Libby PrisonsAt the outbreak of the Great Rebellion in 1861 I was twenty - one years old, and just starting out in life for myself. I was a stout, healthy youth, just passing into the first ¿ush of manhood, and scarce knew what an ache or pain was.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.