Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Preface.

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It is not claimed for this story that it gives a full and perfect history of the sufferings of the Union prisoners in the South during the war; but the writer has endeavored to furnish such descriptions and incidents as will give the reader a true picture of Rebel Prisons, and the means and methods of living or dying in them.

In doing this, he has relied on his memory; selecting those facts and trying to paint those pictures which are clearest and plainest in his own mind. He has not tried to color these descriptions --they would not bear it; but has told them in plain language, just as they seem to him after a lapse of fifteen years. [8]

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