John W. Urban

From the title page: "A graphic recital of personal experiences throughout the entire Civil War, in which the author was actually engaged in 25 Battles and Skirmished, was three times captured and incarcerated in Andersonville, Libby, Millen and other Southern prisons. A vivid and truthful description of the life of a Union volunteer in all its different phases, on the battle-field, in the prison den, at the picket line, and in the camp and bivouac. In fact a recital of possibly as varied and thrilling as were known during all the vivid vicissitudes of that terrible four years of internecine strife." Served in Company D, 1st Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry (30th Pennsylvania Infantry). Illustrated.… (altro)