. Prisoners of war and military prisons; personal narratives of experience in the prisons at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Charleston, and Columbia ... with a list of officers who were prisoners of war from January 1, 1864 . Prisoners of War, 229. continued, the sentinels were trebled in the sentry-boxes,with orders to fire into the first squad that attempted it. Some time in the afternoon after our arrival, the rationwagon drove into the stockade, laden with corn meal,bacon, and salt, whichwere thrown down into aheap, in an open spaceabout midway the inclos-ure.
. Prisoners of war and military prisons; personal narratives of experience in the prisons at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Charleston, and Columbia ... with a list of officers who were prisoners of war from January 1, 1864 . Prisoners of War, 229. continued, the sentinels were trebled in the sentry-boxes,with orders to fire into the first squad that attempted it. Some time in the afternoon after our arrival, the rationwagon drove into the stockade, laden with corn meal,bacon, and salt, whichwere thrown down into aheap, in an open spaceabout midway the inclos-ure. It was a horriblesight to witness the hag-gard crowd gatheredabout this precious pile,while the commissary su-perintended its divisionamong the squad sergeants, gazing meanwhile with wolf-ish eyes upon the little heap as it diminished, or followingtheir sergeant commissary back to his quarters, as fam-ished swine follow clamorously the footsteps of theirmaster, as he carries their food to the accustomed rations were distributed by the division-sergeant tothe mess-sergeant, who then divided them among themen. To avoid quarreling during the last distribution, itwas the custom among all the messes for the mess-sergeantto separate the rations into as many small
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