. Andersonville : a story of Rebel military prisons, fifteen months a guest of the so-called southern confederacy : a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence . 106 AKDERSONVILLE. mans person were in good demand at high prices. The men ofthe Army of the Potomac, who were paid regularly, and werealways near their supplies, had their pockets filled with combs,silk handkerchiefs, knives, neckties, gold pens, pencils, silverwatches, playing cards, dice, etc. Such of these as escapeda,ppropriation by their captors and Dick Turner, were eage
. Andersonville : a story of Rebel military prisons, fifteen months a guest of the so-called southern confederacy : a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence . 106 AKDERSONVILLE. mans person were in good demand at high prices. The men ofthe Army of the Potomac, who were paid regularly, and werealways near their supplies, had their pockets filled with combs,silk handkerchiefs, knives, neckties, gold pens, pencils, silverwatches, playing cards, dice, etc. Such of these as escapeda,ppropriation by their captors and Dick Turner, were eagerly. sat, gtjard: do you want to buy some greenbacks?^ bought by the guards, who paid fair prices in Confederatemoney, or traded wheat bread, tobacco, daily papers, etc., forthem. There was also considerable brokerage in money, and themanner of doing this was an admirable exemplification of thefolly of the fiat money idea- The Eebels exhausted theiringenuity in framing laws to sustain the purchasing power oftheir paper money. It was made legal tender for all debtspublic and private ; it was decreed that the man who refused totake it was a public enemy; all the considerations of patriotismwere rallied to its support, and the law provided that any A STOKY OF liEBEL MILITARY PRISONS. 107 citizens found trafficldng in the money of the enemy — {.«.,greenbacks, should suffer imprisonment in the Penitentiary, andany soldier so offending should suffer death. ISotwithstanding all this, in Kichmond, the head and heartof the Confederacy, in January, 1864 — long before the Eebelcause began to loo
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