THE SOUTHERN SIDE; OR, ANDERSONVILLE PRISON. COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.TOGETHER WITH AN EXAMINATION OF THE WIRZ TRIAL; A COMPARISON OF THE MORTALITY IN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PRISONS; REMARKS ON THE EXCHANGE BUREAU, ETC. AN APPENDIX, SHOWING THE NUMBER OF PRISONERS THAT DIED AT ANDERSONVILLE, AND THE CAUSES OF DEATH; CLASSIFIED LISTS OF ALL THAT DIED IN STOCKADE AND HOSPITAL, ETC., ETC.

488pp, folding plan frontis, folding bill of exchange after page 404, illustrated. Original gilt-decorated maroon cloth [rubbed], gilt-lettered spine. Text clean. Chipped endpapers. Neat penciled scholarly marginalia, and typed learned comments laid in by "A.L.A." in 1957. Very Good. Written by the chief surgeon at Andersonville, this book rebuts the charges of atrocities committed there. The author argues that "the sufferings at Andersonville were the results of a malignant pestilence, coupled with the uncontrollable events of a fierce and bitter war." Stevenson insists on the innocence of Wirz, that the Union had obstructed prisoner exchanges and, had those exchanges occurred, "three-fourths of all the lives lost in prisons, North and South, could have been saved." Stevenson provides "some helpful medical data" [Nevins]. Also provided are lists, by State, of "Federal soldiers that died and were buried at Andersonville, Ga."; and a list of "Federal officers that were confined at Camp Asylum, Columbia, S.C." III Dornbusch 641. I Nevins 203. Nicholson 803. II De Renne 763.…