Identifier: prisonersofwarmi00isha (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Isham, Asa B. (Asa Brainerd), 1844-1912 Davidson, Henry M Furness, H. B
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prison life
Publisher: Cincinnati, Lyman & Cushing
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Prisoners of War. 75 with the corn, and we had to sift it before we could useit. The refuse from the sifting was browned, and adecoction made from it which was our substitute forcoftee. Scurvy, which had about disappeared since we leftMacon, under the influence of the diet at Savannah, againbecame prevalent. ^No one who has not suflered fromprolonged meat deprivation can imagine the cravingswhich tormented us. Any thing having the appearanceof meat would have been greedily devoured and no ques-tions asked. An old razor-back boar, as tough, lean,and unsavory as an aged billy-goat, upon straggling intocamp, was set upon and ^ -^i^^t —, _ _ - -dispatched with clubs. :^fcThe famished prisoners ^lpiled upon each other in ^ptthe struggle to get apiece of the flesh, andhacked it up into little ^^^^bits with knives. Thosewho were fortunate enough to secure a taste esteemed itthe sweetest morsel they had ever known. The tops of apair of cavalry boots, belonging to the writer, which hadparted

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