John McElroy 18461929 was an American printer soldier journalist andauthor best known for writing the novel The <strong>Red Acorn</strong> and the fourvolumeAnd... » 

John McElroy 18461929 was an American printer soldier journalist andauthor best known for writing the novel The Red Acorn and the fourvolumeAndersonville A Story of Rebel Military Prisons based upon his lengthyconfinement in the Confederate Andersonville prison camp during the AmericanCivil War. The name for this story comes from First Division of the FourteenthArmy Corps the cognizance of which was a crimson acorn worn on the breasts ofits gallant soldiers and borne upon their battle flags. The men wearing thisemblem were at Mill Springs Perryville Shiloh Corinth Stone RiverChickamauga Mission Ridge Atlanta Jonesville March to the Sea andBentonville. The story centers on two young lovers separated by war. «