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John McElroy

(McElroy, John, 1846-1929)

 Identifier: andersonvilles00mcel (find matches) Title: Andersonville : a story of Rebel military prisons, fifteen months a guest of the so-called southern confederacy : a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence Year: 1879 (1870s) Authors: McElroy, John, 1846-1929 Subjects: Andersonville Prison United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Publisher: Toledo : D. R. Locke Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: First my boots fell into cureless ruin, but this,was no special hardship, as the weather hadbecome quite warm, and it was more pleasant,than otherwise to go barefooted. Then partof the underclothing retired from service.The jacket and vest followed, their end beinghastened by having their best portions takento patch up the pantaloons, which kept givingout at the most embarrassing places. Thenthe cape of the overcoat was called upon taassist in repairing these continually-recurringbreaches in the nether garments. The sameinsatiate demand finally consumed the wholecoat, in a vain attempt to prevent an exposureof person greater than consistent with the usages of society.The pantaloons — or what, by courtesy, I called such, were amonument of careful and ingenious, but hopeless, patching, thatshould have called forth the admiration of a Florentine artistin mosaic. I have been shown — in later years — many tabletops, ornamented in marquetry, inlaid with thousands of littlebits of wood, cunningly arranged, and patiently joined together.I always look at them with interest, for I know the work spentupon them : I remember my Andersonville pantaloons.The clothing upon the upper part of my body had beenreduced to the remains of a knit undershirt. It had fallen into Text Appearing After Image: THE AUTHOR'S APPEAR-ANCE ON ENTERINGPRISON. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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John McElroy (1846–1929) was an American printer, soldier, journalist and author, known mainly for writing the novel The Red Acorn and the four-volume Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, based upon his lengthy confinement in the Confederate Andersonville prison camp during the American Civil War. (From Wikipedia)

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