Excerpt from Southern Prisons, or Josie the Heroine of Florence: Four Years of Battle and Imprisonment; Richmond, Atlanta, Belle Isle, Andersonville and Florence, a Complete History of All Southern Prisons, Embracing a Thrilling Episode of Romance and Love My personal narrative is a truthful record of events as they passed, and the somewhat romantic episode which accompanies it is but the plain detail of a beauti ful, but sad, chapter in my life, which will haunt my memory forever. In this passage of happiness and love, I am not alone among the Northern soldiers who became forcibly domiciled at the South. There were many others who formed friendships as strong, won love as enduring let us hope their bliss was of longer duration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.