| Amos Sterns was a twenty-eight year old machinist from Worcester, Mass., who lost his wife and two infant daughters to disease just before enlisting as a private in the Twenty-fifth Regiment, Mass. Volunteer Infantry, in October 1861. In March 1863 he began keeping a daily record of his experiences and of his intermost thoughts and concerns as a soldier. He was taken prisoner at Drurys Bluff, Virginia on 16 May 1864. He passed through the horrors of Libby Prison, Andersonville, Charleston, and Florence. - United States - Military - Civil War |
