. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . and business men in theprisons, as well as the thriftless and improvident. Some pris-oners always had money, and bought the belongings of thespendthrifts. Even in Andersonville, prisoners kept restau-rants and wood-yards, and hundreds peddled articles of food ordrink they had managed to procure. The venders, sitting withtheir legs under them like tailors, proclaimed loudly the quan-tity and quality of beans or mush they could sell for a statedprice. The great difficulty in all prisons was the necessity of get-ting through the twent
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . and business men in theprisons, as well as the thriftless and improvident. Some pris-oners always had money, and bought the belongings of thespendthrifts. Even in Andersonville, prisoners kept restau-rants and wood-yards, and hundreds peddled articles of food ordrink they had managed to procure. The venders, sitting withtheir legs under them like tailors, proclaimed loudly the quan-tity and quality of beans or mush they could sell for a statedprice. The great difficulty in all prisons was the necessity of get-ting through the twenty-four hours. With nothing to do thesehours dragged slowly. Some were able to pass a great numberin sleeping. Those of lymphatic temperament slept fifteen ormore hours, but others found such indulgence impossible andwere forced to seek other methods of enduring the tiresomedays. The nervous, mercurial men devised games, laying outchecker- or chess-boards on pieces of plank of which they some-how managed to get possession. These boards were never idle, 126 ]. SOUTH CAROLINIANS AND NEW YORKERSA MEETING THAT WAS AS AGREEABLE AS POSSIBLE The two facing sentries formally parleying upon the parapet belong to the Charleston Zouave Cadets,under Captain C. E. Chichester. Below them, past the flag fluttering to the left of the picture, are theprisoners taken at the first battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861, and placed under their care in Castle Pinck-ney. The meeting was as agreeable as possible under the circumstances, to all parties concerned. Theprisoners, chiefly from New York regiments, behaved themselves like gentlemen and kept their quartersclean. The Cadets treated them as such, and picked up a few useful hints, such as the method ofsoftening hard-tack to make it more edible. The Cadets were well drilled and kept strict discipline. and ninny a rural champion owes his title to the hours he spentplaying checkers in a military prison. Major Putnam tellsus that some of his companions i
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