b. 1832

Presents the 1861-65 diaries, personal sketches, and maps of Private Robert Knox Sneden, a Union soldier whose appointment as a mapmaker led him to witness some of the Civil War's most important campaigns, and who spent a year imprisoned in Georgia's Andersonville prison camp.

An autobiographical account of the life of Louis Hughes, an African-American born into slavery in Virginia and after thirty years as a slave, managed to escape from his owners, find the wife he had been separated from, and start a new life as a free man.