communication, finger signs, 65, 70

communication, secret, 43, 70

Confederate currency, 27, 32, 33, 34, 94, 121, 140

Cook, Capt. William, 58, 85, 96, 103, 105, 143

cooking, how and where, 21, 95

Const.i.tution, U. S., 29, 39, 47

Corcoran, Gen. Michael, 53

corn-cob-meal bread, 44, 93, 100, 107

corn-cob-meal soup, 94, 102

court martial in prison, 88; and Appendix, 153

Crew, John, a kind enemy, 28

Crook, Gen. George, 4

D

daily routine, Danville, 97-105, 140, 141

Dame, Rev., preaches to us, 121

Dan river, 79, 98

Danville, arrival at, 47, 48; again, 77

Danville death record, 129, 132, 142, 144

Danville prisons, 98, 129

Davies's _Legendre_, 140 (note)

Davis, Jefferson, 150

Davis, Lieut., death of, 57, 58, 68

dead lines, Salisbury, 54

deaf-and-dumb alphabet, 65, 70

deaths at Salisbury, 55, 130, 134, 136, 145

deaths of Confederates in northern prisons, 146

deaths at Danville, 129, 132, 136, 145

Declaration of Independence, 47

defile, Berryville, 3, 4, 7

devastation by Sheridan, 2, 3

diary kept, 22, 28, 44

d.i.c.kerman, Capt. G. M., 32

discussion with Lieut. Howard, 28, 29, 30

discussions in prison, 47, 90, 91, 102, 110, 141

distribution of rations, 54, 100

Dolan, pitied by Confederate ladies, 37

Duffie, Gen. O. N., 113-117

Dwight, Gen. William, 12, 13

E

Early, Gen. Jubal A., 5, 9, 14, 17

Edenburg village, 26

education in prison, 69, 70, 91, 92, 140

Eighth Corps, W. Va. Army, 4, 5, 6

Election votes in prison, 90

Emerson, Rev., prison chaplain, 58, 80

enlist or die, choice to, 133, 134

Epaminondas, strategy at Leuctra, 10

"escape on the brain," 67

escapes attempted, 26, 50, 110