Prison Life in Andersonville: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Prison Life in Andersonville, credited to John Levi Maile, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Prison Life in Andersonville by John Levi Maile. Read in English by Jeffery A firsthand account of the deplorable conditions within the most infamous prisoner-of-war camp of the Confederacy. Though functioning only during the last year of the Civil War, nearly 13,000 of 45,000 incarcerated Union soldiers died under inhumane conditions. - Summary by Jeffery Smith

Recording facts

• Recording title: Prison Life in Andersonville
• Author credits: John Levi Maile
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 3:06:14

Catalogue topics

• war
• prison
• andersonville
• civil

Track guide

1. 00 - Commendation, Dedication, and Person Forward — 6:45
2. 01 - Ch.1 - The Writer's Credentials — 10:25
3. 02 - Ch.2 - An Inside View of a Confederate Prison — 10:18
4. 03 - Ch.3 - The Prison Commissariat — 23:56
5. 04 - Ch.4 - A Dearth of Water — 11:13
6. 05 - Ch.5 - A Cry to Heaven — 5:50
7. 06 - Ch.6 - Unsealing of the Spring — 8:40
8. 07 - Ch.7 - Was It a Miracle? — 17:25
9. 08 - Ch.8 - Deliverance — 11:47
10. 09 - Ch.9 - An Incident by the Way — 11:39
11. 10 - Ch.10 - A Sequel — 16:41
12. 11 - Appendix A - Contributory Testimony — 4:38
13. 12 - Appendix B - Responsibility for Prison Treatment — 6:09
14. 13 - Appendix C - Woman's Relief Corps Memorial — 15:26
15. 14 - Appendix D - A Memorial Day Meditation — 8:55
16. 15 - Appendix E - Shall the Government Confer Permanent Honors on Confederate Heroes? — 16:28

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