Imprisoned at Camp Douglas: The Diary and Art of Knoxville Confederate Samuel Bell Palmer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798895274095)

Michael M. Van Ness was born into a military family in DC, educated at Yale and Virginia University's School of Medicine, and served in the Navy at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Now retired from his gastroenterology practice in Canton, Ohio, he is the author of General in Command: The Life of Major General John B. Anderson and To the Front: Grandfathers' Stories in the Cause of Freedom.