"The Dispatch Carrier and Memoirs of Andersonville Prison" is the war memoirs of Union soldier William N. Tyler on his wartime duties during the American Civil War. Tyler gives a thrilling description of his work as a dispatch carrier as a young man in his twenties. He also gives his other experiences during the war, including the dramatic events leading to his capture, imprisonment, prison escape and recapture again by enemy forces. The book paints a vivid picture of life in the different American camps during the Civil War, the rigors of service and the state of the prison camps of the time.