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BEYOND THE LINES:
OR
A Yankee Prisoner Loose in Dixie.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION,
BY REV. ALEXANDER CLARK.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. W. DAUGHADAY, PUBLISHER,
1308 CHESTNUT STREET.
1863.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by
JOHN J. GEER,
In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
In presenting the following narrative ofsuffering endured while a prisoner in the so-calledSouthern Confederacy, the principalobject had in view by the author, is to placebefore those into whose hands this volume maycome, a plain, straightforward, unvarnishedaccount of facts.
In regard to the workings and results of thatsystem of human bondage to which our countryowes its present difficulties, there have been somany mistaken ideas, statements, and theories,that it has become the duty of every true andloyal man to expose the truth; or, speakingwith more correctness, to strip from the hideousskeleton of Slavery all its gaily painted anddeceptive cloaks and masks, and to exhibit it inall its ghastly repulsiveness.
It is my purpose in the succeeding pages tonarrate simply how, after being captured at thebattle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, I was,on the most frivolous charges, tried for my lifebefore several prominent Rebel Generals, among[Pg 4]whom were Bragg and Beauregard; how I wassubsequently chained with negro chains andcast i