. 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 . Avas a respectable mechanic before entering the Army,lie was evidently a very domestic man, whose whole happinesscentered in his family. When he first came in he was thoroughly dazed by the great-ness of his misfortune. Ue would sit for hours with his facein his hands and his elbows on his knees, gazing out upon themass of men and huts, with vacant, lack-luster eyes. AVecould n
. 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 . Avas a respectable mechanic before entering the Army,lie was evidently a very domestic man, whose whole happinesscentered in his family. When he first came in he was thoroughly dazed by the great-ness of his misfortune. Ue would sit for hours with his facein his hands and his elbows on his knees, gazing out upon themass of men and huts, with vacant, lack-luster eyes. AVecould not interest him in anything. We tried to show himhow to fix his blanket up to give him some shelter, but he wentat the work in a disheartened way, and finally smiled feebly and stopped. He had some lettersfrom his family and a melaineotypeof a plain-faced woman — his wife— and her children, and spent muchtime in looking at them. At firsthe ate his rations when he drewthem, but finally began to rejectthem. In a few days he was deli-rious with hunger and homesick-ness, lie would sit on the sandfor hours imagining that he was atIns family table, dispensing hisfrugal hospitalities to his wife and children. ^^^^. THE CRAZT PENNSYLVANIAN. A STOET OF EEBEL MTLITAIIY PRISONS. 171 Making a motion, as if presenting a dish, he would say: * Janie, have another biscuit, do ! Or, ^ Eddie, son, wont you have another piece of this nicesteak ? Or, Maggie, have some more potatos, and so on, through awhole family of six, or more. It was a relief to us when hedied in about a month after he came in. As stated above, the PljTiiouth men brought in a largeamount of money — variously estimated at from ten thousandto one hundred thousand dollars. The presence of this quan-tity of circulating medium immediately started a lively com-merce All sorts of devices were resorted to by the other pris-oners to get a little of this wealth. Eude cbuck-a-luck boardswere constructed out of such material as was
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