15th Mass, 2nd Corps POW Diary, CSA ANDERSONVILLE CAPTIVITY, Worcester Civil War

Description

TRANSCRIPTION of Very Rare Original ANDERSONVILLE PRISON Civil War DIARY Written by Massachusetts Soldier......Captured at The Battle of Spottsylvania & Imprisoned in THE NOTORIOUS CSA ANDERSONVILLE PRISON
Suffered For a Year as a PRISONER THERE
DESCRIPTION:
Typed transcription of a rare original hand written diary kept by a Massachusetts soldier during his stay at the notorious ANDERSONVILLE PRISON during the Civil War. It starts with his involvement in the battle of the Wilderness, his capture at the Battle of Spottsylvania on May 12, 1864, his transport to and imprisonment as a POW in the infamous ANDERSONVILLE PRISON, until his release on May 22, 1865, HE WAS A POW THERE FOR OVER A YEAR!!! The original diary is in my personal collection, and the first page is pictured.
Kept by Color Cpl. George W. Farr of Co. D, 15th Mass. INFANTRY, 1st Brigade of the 2nd Division, of THE FAMOUS 2nd CORPS.  PART OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. He was mustered into the Army with the 15th Mass. on August 25, 1861, so was involved in all the Army of the Potomac battles. He appears to have born in Worcester, Mass., and was credited to Worcester when he enlisted.
He was captured May 12, 1864 during the battle of Spottsylvania, Va. and  taken to Maj. General Robert E. Lee's headquarters for 2 days. Then on to Lynchburg and Danville, then on through the Carolinas to the "Rebel Military Prison at Andersonville"......"the worst place they could find in the entire Southern Confederacy".   AND UNLIKE SO MANY OF THE POWS, TAKEN THERE, SOMEHOW FARR WAS ABLE TO SURVIVE, FOR MORE THAN A YEAR UNDER THOSE CONDITIONS.
This is the complete, actual typed content from my original diary with daily entries written up while in the convalescent camp in 1865, from notes taken during his stay at Andersonville.  The original also has a variety of newspaper articles on the Andersonville commandant, Captain Wirz, including his trial and other news leading up to his execution in July 1865. As a former POW, Farr was very interested in this man who made his life so difficult and actually made his survival such a unique and surprising thing.
So, this is a FIRST HAND DAILY ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN THE INFAMOUS ANDERSONVILLE, in remarkable detail, of living conditions, and daily life at this terrible place. Great detail covering a wide variety of everyday activity, occurences, and anecdotes....as they happened.
Every page is loaded with amazing description and detail written by a soldier as it happened and without knowing what the next day might bring. . As a very brief indication, significant detail about the conditions of the train transport South, e.g. interaction with the Rebel guards, trading, poor treatment, minimal food, etc....details about very limited rations during transport, lots of fighting, talk of parole, gambling, many deaths every day, the soldiers killing men ("Raiders") for stealing, men shot for crossing the infamous "dead line", rain discomfort and ruining rations, no new clothes/and those on their backs turning to rags.....hundreds of Union prisoners brought into camp every day..... internal prisoner crimes against other prisoners and the punishment by the other POWs and the Rebs for them....., making pants with his friends, food details, shelter details and construction....MANY rumors that they were to be moved to another prison in South Carolina or generally paroled,   etc., etc.....ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLY DETAILED CONTENT ABOUT EVERY ASPECT OF ANDERSONVILLE PRISON LIFE FOR MORE THAN A YEAR UNTIL THEY WERE FINALLY PAROLED.
Nice biography of Farr at the beginning of the journal.
An Andersonville day-to-day journal that was kept by the soldier while there, and one of the rare lucky souls WHO SURVIVED THAT HELLHOLE EXPERIENCE AND WHO GIVES INCREDIBLE DETAILS ABOUT WHAT HE SAW AND HOW HE DID IT!!
You get the idea. The above content is just a brief indication and sample. This guy was THERE. RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS AMAZING PIECE OF HISTORY. He was very accurate and eloquent and intelligent in his observations and recorded it all. If you want to know what it was like, first hand, and how these guys suffered on a day to day basis, here it is. AND NEVER KNOWING FROM DAY TO DAY IF THEY WOULD SURVIVE TO THE NEXT, FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR. A very interesting, detailed description of life in a Confederate POW camp during this period, especially the INFAMOUS ANDERSONVILLE PRISON.
The typed transcription being offered here is 25 typed pages long, each single spaced, loaded with first hand information and details by someone who was THERE. (This is a complete transcript of the 54 handwritten pages in the handwritten original). THERE IS A HUGE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN SUCH A LARGE DOCUMENT. AND HE WAS QUITE DESCRIPTIVE AND INCLUSIVE OF DETAILS.
Again, please note that you are getting a typed transcription of the original diary that is a treasured part of my collection, not the original diary itself (both pictured). It has not been published and the content has never been offered for sale before. I am offering a limited number of copies as a means of sharing the fantastic content with other collectors and students of history. You will not see something like this again, especially where you get to know this soldier from the daily entries and how he survived them.
I will include a XEROX COPY of one of the actual diary pages with this to enable you to see the real journal in his handwriting..
You will not be disappointed with the AMAZING content of this and the story behind the soldier who wrote it.
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