Civil War 1st edition title includes the author's capture at Vicksburg, May 3rd, 1863, while running the Rebel batteries. His imprisonment at Vicksburg, Jackson, Atlanta, Richmond, and Salisbury. His escape and perilous journey of four hundred miles to the Union Lines at Knoxville.

Sampling of books contents include; The War Correspondent, The Fremont Campaign, Visit to Wilson's Creek Battle Ground, Secession in Missouri, Battle of Donelson, Gallant Charge, Desperation of the Rebels, Extracts from my notebook,  Occupation of Columbus, Battle of Pea Ridge, Desperate Struggle for the Possession of the Train, Hand to Hand Combats, A Song Book doing the Work of the Bible, Indian Atrocities, Down the Mississippi, Inauguration of Battery Running, Island No. 10, The Artillery of the Rebels, Battle of Shiloh, Arrival of General Buell, Second Day's Fighting, Anecdote of General Pope, Life of the Flotilla, Piety of Commodore Foote, Melancholy Suicide of a Slave, Naval Engagement at Fort Pillow, Fall of Memphis, The Bragg - Buell Campaign, The Ram Arkansas Defying our Fleet, Plantation Life in the South, Consignment to a Mississippi Jail, At Jackson and Atlanta, The Whitehall Street Prison, The Libby Prison, Arrival at Richmond, The First Shock in Prison, The Kitchen Cabinet of the Libby, Cell Life in Richmond, Salisbury Penitentiary, The Horrors of Southern Captivity, Photographs of Horror, Tunnels and Tunneling, Desperate Escape and much more!

Illustrations include; Our Capture Before Vicksburg, The Bohemians as Housekeepers, Bohemia as a Belligerent, Gunboat Fight at Fort Pillow, Union Bushwhackers Attacking Rebel Cavalry, The Escaped Correspondents Enjoying the Negro's Hospitality, Conference of the Correspondents with Bushwhackers, The Bohemians Climbing the Mountains.