. 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 . They ran horses and foughtcocks, dawdled through society whenyoung, and intrigued in politics the rest-bii^i^^^rk ^^SSB^y^ of their lives, with frequent spice-work ^ of duels. Esteeming personal courage as a supreme human virtue, and neverwearying of prating their devotion tothe highest standard of intrepidity,they never produced a General whowas even mediocre; nor did any one
. 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 . They ran horses and foughtcocks, dawdled through society whenyoung, and intrigued in politics the rest-bii^i^^^rk ^^SSB^y^ of their lives, with frequent spice-work ^ of duels. Esteeming personal courage as a supreme human virtue, and neverwearying of prating their devotion tothe highest standard of intrepidity,they never produced a General whowas even mediocre; nor did any one ever hear of a SouthCarolina regiment gaining distinction. Regarding politics andthe art of government as, equally with arms, their naturalvocations, they have never given the Kation a statesman, andtheir greatest politicians achieved eminence by advocating ideaawhich only attracted attention by their balefulness. Still further resembling the French grandes seigneurs of theeighteenth century, they rolled in wealth wrung from thelaborer by reducing the rewards of his toil to the last fractionthat would support his life and strength. Tlie rice culture wasimmensely profitable, because they had found the secret for. A RICK riELD GtRIi. A STORY OF REBEL MILITARY PRISONS. 515 raising it more cheaply than even the pauper laborer of the oldworld could. Their lands had cost them nothing originally,the improvements of dikes and ditches were comparativelyinexpensive, the taxes were nominal, and their slaves were notso expensive to keep as good horses in the North. Thousands of the acres along the road belonged to the Ehetts,
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