James Riley Weaver’s Civil War by John T Schlotterbeck

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James Riley Weaver’s Civil War by John T Schlotterbeck

Captured on October 11, 1863, James Riley Weaver, a Union cavalry officer, spent nearly seventeen months in Confederate prisons. Remarkably, Weaver kept a diary that documents 666 consecutive days of his experience, providing not only historically important information, but also keen insights into the human condition under adversity.