The final hours of the war were every bit as perilous as all the other ones for this American POW
Charles Hopkins received the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry at the battle of Gaines’ Mill, but his toughest fight was trying to survive at the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp. He left this never-before-published record.
While some American captives languished, others conducted a flourishing market—and a huge black sailor organized everything