Summary Of Chapter One By Ovid Futch

Ovid Futch’s story of the war’s prisoners, takes the reader through the journey all of the ins and outs of the lives of the captives taken by the Confederate Soldiers. Mr. Futch actually died before his book was published. He did many years of research before finally passing away, digging into books and records that had never been put out to the public. He went through all of the documents that even barely related to the book he was attempting to write and then sorted out what was actually first hand and true, from the things that had been passed down from generation to generation and been changed so many times it was hardly true anymore. He finally had his book together after many years of work, but passed away before he ever saw it published. Later, Michael P. Gray stepped in to

Chapter 1 is the Power to impress. It talks about how some people were all for the prison that was trying to be built, but then there were people higher up in the governmental chain that had a feeling that it would cause trouble and havoc down the road. Most of the men that were against it were higher up in the government and were preventing it by not giving the prison their support or money. This chapter of the book gave an in-depth look at how the prison’s start was not an easy 1,2,3 type of start. The author goes through and includes the names of people that were important in the making or breaking of Andersonville Prison. With the names, he adds, what they did and how it affected everything in the long run. Ovid ensured that everyone that needed credit received credit. He includes -History of Andersonville Prison (Revised Edition) by Ovid L. Futch ~ With a New Introduction by Michael P. Gray- University Press of Florida