I appreciate the excellent book review written by Scott Mingus which can be viewed at
http://scottmingus.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/book-review-hiram/ . Scott is an author of highly acclaimed Civil War books and his home web site is at
http://www.scottmingus.com/. His review mentions my description of the death of a soldier on a prison train from Richmond to Andersonville. To help you imagine what this was like, place yourself into this sketch from the Florence Military Prison archives.
