Hell on Belle Isle: Diary of a Civil War POW: Journal of J. Osborn Coburn (Don Allison - DLM) blood and friends in Gettysburg

and friends in Gettysburg

deprivation and distrust

Taylor brings new insight into the enormous risks taken by formerly enslaved people to find freedom in the midst of the nation's most destructive war

a captain of quartermasters who quickly establishes himself as one of the finest leaders of the Union army

whose reception was split along party lines

Hell on Belle Isle: Diary of a Civil War POW: Journal of J. Osborn Coburn (Don Allison - DLM) blood and friends in Gettysburgby Jacob Coburn & Don Allison Based on the journal of Sergeant Jacob Osborn Coburn, a member of the 6th Michigan Cavalry who was captured at Charles Town, Virginia, Oct. 18, 1863, this firsthand account of the horrors of prison life was sent to his parents by a Union hospital steward after Coburn's death in a prison hospital in Richmond on March 8, 1864; a rare and valuable source for those interested in prison life. North & South, The Magazine of