. 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 . out nineoclock each day. . After the drum beats for re-treat and the flag goes down, which is about sunset, noprisoner is allowed to leave his quarters. At nine oclock,the garrison band regales us with several spirited tunes,and at the tap of the drum at half-past nine, all lights inthe prison must be extinguished. . All things considered, the
. 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 . out nineoclock each day. . After the drum beats for re-treat and the flag goes down, which is about sunset, noprisoner is allowed to leave his quarters. At nine oclock,the garrison band regales us with several spirited tunes,and at the tap of the drum at half-past nine, all lights inthe prison must be extinguished. . All things considered, the whole premises are kept re-markably clean and healthy. Captain Scoville, who hascharge of the internal affairs of the prison, visits all partsof the institution frequently, and is very kind in listeningto the various questions and supplying the wants of theprisoners. When a lot of prison birds come in, each isgiven an empty straw tick, and they go out in squads to abarge of straw at the landing, and in a little while comeback with their ticks stuffed full. . Several even-ings in each week, the big gate facing the lake is opened,and Confederate detachments of perhaps a hundred al-lowed to go and bathe in the lake; and, as most all are. ST ^O^Ct^^ Prisoners of War. 137 glad of the opportunity to get oat of the walls and intothe water, we have to take it by According tothis descriptionof a northernprison for Con-federate officers(and it is but afair sample ofall northernprisons for Con-federates, rankand file alike), it does not seem to have been a very bad place, particularlyto Federal officers who suffered confinement at Libby,Macon, Charleston, and Columbia. The rations they re-ceived at any of these places and the accommodationsthey had would gladly have been exchanged for access tothe garbage barrel and for quarters in the cow-shed of anyrespectable, well-regulated family in the Xorth. However, lest it may be charged by some overzealoussouthern defender that Captain
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