The Andersonville Diary & Memoirs of Charles Hopkins, 1st New Jersey Infantry

by Charles Hopkins, Roger Long (Foreword), William B. Styple (Editor)

Book by Charles Hopkins

221 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1988

Reviews

[Frederick Bingham · Rating 3 out of 5]

Charles Hopkins was a union soldier during the civil war. He was captured in 1864 and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Andersonville Georgia. This book contains excerpts from his diaries and memoirs he wrote later in his life about his experiences there. Andersonville is an infamous place because of the horrible conditions. Thousands of soldiers died in the camp, many unnecessarily. When the camp was captured by Sherman near the end of the war, prisoners were found diseased and emaciated. The pictures presented in the book are very similar to those taken when the allies captured the Nazi death camps at the end of WWII. Hopkins' account of this horror is cold factual and yet chilling in its details. The accompanying photos are a nice additional touch.