Release From the Bull Pen--Andersonville, 1864
JOHN E. WARREN,son of a Wisconsin farmer, was in his freshman year at Madison when the Confederacy rebelled. He enlisted in 1861, served for four years in cavalry and artillery, and was eventually taken prisoner and shipped to Andersonville. Here he survived for 162 days under conditions which he describes with grim humor. This account was written for, but never published in, THE BATTLES AND LEADERS OF THE CIVIL WAR.Mr. Warren lived to a ripe old age in Maine, where he served as mill manager of the S. D. Warren Paper Company.