"Decidedly the best location": establishing the prison

"A prison for officers alone": early days of operation

"Everything in prison is elated": the road to exchange

"It requires only proper energy and judgment": the second wave of prisoners

"This horrid life of inactivity": the battle with boredom

"A matter of necessity": prison economics

"A guard for unarmed men": guards and commanders

"Almost a fixed impossibility": escapes and attempts

"The wrath of hunger": rations and Union retaliation

"A pitiful scene": climate and health

"Sad and glad at the same time": the road to release.