A PRISONER’S DIARY. A PAPER READ AT THE OFFICERS’ REUNION IN BOSTON, MAY 11, 1877, BY SAMUEL M. QUINCY, CAPTAIN SECOND MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT OF INFANTRY. BREVET BRIGADIER GENERAL VOLUNTEERS. BOSTON: George H. Ellis, Printer, 141 Franklin Street. 1882. PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE ASSOCIATION....

The committee’s announcement, that on this evening there would be read by me a paper relating to the history of the regiment, I fear may have awakened false expectations. But it was suggested that a little personal history of my own experiences, from the moment when that terrific flank fire caused the regiment to leave me for dead on the field of Cedar Mountain to the moment when, three months later, I again came under the stars and stripes at Aiken’s Landing, would interest former comrades for