Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864...: An Appendix Containing Statement of a Confederate Physician and Officer Relative to Prison Condition and Management |
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... meal , mixed with- out leaven or seasoning , baked in creased cards two feet square . The cry of " raiders " awoke us last night . We were told by old prisoners yesterday , about gangs of thieves composed of brutal men who steal ...
... meal , mixed with- out leaven or seasoning , baked in creased cards two feet square . The cry of " raiders " awoke us last night . We were told by old prisoners yesterday , about gangs of thieves composed of brutal men who steal ...
Page 65
... meal . The Rebels missed the board , but never found it . Thompson watched the guard while I pulled it away , to warn me if they were likely to shoot , but the other boys didn't know when I stole the " dead line . " Seven hundred men ...
... meal . The Rebels missed the board , but never found it . Thompson watched the guard while I pulled it away , to warn me if they were likely to shoot , but the other boys didn't know when I stole the " dead line . " Seven hundred men ...
Page 66
... meal beer made by letting corn meal sour in water . Molasses can be had for 5c . a teaspoonful ; a little is added to give it a twang and sassafras roots can be had by dig- ging , the tea of which is often added to give it flavor ...
... meal beer made by letting corn meal sour in water . Molasses can be had for 5c . a teaspoonful ; a little is added to give it a twang and sassafras roots can be had by dig- ging , the tea of which is often added to give it flavor ...
Page 68
... meals a day . We could eat all at one . Steward Brown has been out to the hospital a day or two . He tells me that 31 died yesterday , 39 today in the so - called hospital , saying nothing of the prison . He says they are miserable ...
... meals a day . We could eat all at one . Steward Brown has been out to the hospital a day or two . He tells me that 31 died yesterday , 39 today in the so - called hospital , saying nothing of the prison . He says they are miserable ...
Page 71
... meal ; we are of that half this week ; have the trouble of cooking it without salt or seasoning or wood , half the time . We stir it in water , bake it on plates held over a splinter fire with a stiff stick , or boil it into mush or ...
... meal ; we are of that half this week ; have the trouble of cooking it without salt or seasoning or wood , half the time . We stir it in water , bake it on plates held over a splinter fire with a stiff stick , or boil it into mush or ...
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Page 115 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night...
Page 12 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 115 - ... creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ? oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds In full harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night, and lift our thoughts...
Page 14 - Secession is nothing but revolution. The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It was intended for
Page 84 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore. Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Page 115 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward : Oh, why should heavenly God to men have such regard ?1 This agrees with what is recorded of St.
Page 8 - A hard necessity, indeed, compels us to endure the evil of slavery for a time. It was imposed upon us by another nation, while we were yet in a state of colonial vassalage. It cannot be easily, or suddenly removed. Yet while it continues it is a blot on our national character, and every real lover of freedom confidently hopes that it will be effectually, though it must be gradually, wiped away; and earnestly looks for the means, by which this necessary object may be best attained.
Page 225 - And I here before God, measuring my words, knowing their full extent and import, declare that neither the deeds of the Duke of Alva in the Low Countries, nor the massacre of Saint Bartholomew, nor the thumbscrews and engines of torture of the Spanish Inquisition begin to compare in atrocity with the hideous crime of Andersonville.
Page 224 - JH Winder, and the substitution in his place of some one who unites both energy and good judgment with some feeling of humanity and consideration for the welfare and comfort (so far as is consistent with their safe- keeping) of the vast number of unfortunates placed under his control...
Page 217 - The effects of scurvy were manifested on every hand, and in all its various stages, from the muddy, pale complexion, pale gums, feeble, languid muscular motions, lowness of spirits, and fetid breath, to the dusky, dirty, leaden complexion, swollen features, spongy, purple, livid, fungoid, bleeding gums, loose teeth...