Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens: His Diary, Kept When a Prisoner at Fort Warren, Boston Harbour, 1865

From May 27 to October 12, 1865, while imprisoned by the Union army, the Confederate vice-president Alexander Stephens confided to the pages of a journal his struggle between extraordinarily rich inner resources of mind and spirit and a harrowingly uncertain existence fraught with illness, deprivation, isolation, despondency, and humiliation.