Andersonville, Volume 1

d-made of a mixture of flour and meal-and about the size and shape of an ordinary brick. This half loaf was accompanied, while our Government was allowed to furnish rations, with a small piece of

t was so full of bugs -none being entirely free from insects, and some having as many as twelve by actual count-within its shell. This, they declared, was a distinctive characteristic of the pea family. The contention began with our first instalment of the leguminous ration, and was still raging between the survivors who passed into ou

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As the historic British showman said, in reply to the question as to whether an animal in hi

for exercise, played cards, sung, read what few books were available, stood at the windows and studied the landscape, and watched the Rebels trying their guns and shells, and so on as long as it was daylight. Occasionally it was dangerous to be about the windows. This depended wholly on the temper of the guards. One day a member of a Virginia regiment, on guard on the pavement in front, del

There were few opportunities to say bitterly off

d be lying down, and out of the way of shots, a window in the third story would open, a broomstick, with a piece nailed across to represent

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y, "Oh, well, go to -- you -- Rebel --

der and he would fire. Back would come the blouse and hat in haste,

-- -- -- --. But, Lord, you can't shoot for sour apples; if I

e guard would go up with a squad into the third floor, only to find everybody up there snoring away as if they were the Seven Sleepers. After relieving his mind of a quantity of vigorous profanity, and threats to "buck and gag" and cut off the rations of the whole room, the officer w

der and Lightning. The essential features of the plan were that at a preconcerted signal we at the second and third floors should appear at the windows with bricks and irons from the tobacco presses, which a should shower down on the guards and drive them away, while the men of the first floor would pour out, chase the guards into the board house in the basement, s

ied out, but there was no one in the building who was

eet. The other guards fell back and opened fire on them; other troops hastened up, and soon drove them back into the building, after killing ten or fifteen. We of the second and third floors did not anticipate the break at that time, and were taken as

ent, a recklessly brave little rascal. He had somehow smuggled a small four

isoners were all ranged on one side of the room and carefully examined by one party, while another hunted through the blankets and bundles. It was all in vain; no pistol could be found. The boy had a loaf of wheat bread, bought from a baker duri

is would intimidate as from a repetition of the attack, but our sailors conceived that, as they laid against the shore next to us, they could be easily c