Identifier: soldiersstoryofh00ingoss (find matches)
Title: The soldier's story of his captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and other Rebel prisons
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Goss, Warren Lee, 1835-1925 Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, illustrator
Subjects: Andersonville Prison
Publisher: Boston : I.N. Richardson & Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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e opening of thenew stockade, as it was usually termed, was an eventwhich contributed to the comfort of the prisoners invarious ways. It gave them more wood, by the tear-ing down of the stockade walls, which had separatedthe new enclosure from the old, furnishing for a time agood supply. But, as the majority in prison had nomeans of splitting and cutting up the huge logs whichformed the stockade walls, nor the instruments for dig-ging up or cutting down the huge timbers, the bottomsof which had been solidly fixed into the ground someeight feet, and as but a limited number of the thirtythousand men could work at such employment at atime, the supply fell into the hands of a few who hadthe strength and implements to do the work. Thestock, however, was soon exhausted, and wood becamealmost as scarce as ever. There were yet in the newstockade roots and stumps, which gave, for a while, tothose who had the courage and strength to dig in thehot sun, a supply. But the larger number had neithei
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DISHONOEABLE PEOPOSALS. 167 strength, courage, nor the implements, other than thenfingers, to dig with. The reader, in considering our circumstances, mustalways remember that the great majority of the impris-oned thousands had become so emaciated and weak bycontinual exposure and starvation as to be scarcely ableto take advantage of any circumstance like the fore-going in their favor. There were always a few, per-haps one in two hundred, who formed an exception tothe great mass of sufferers. A few who had axes orlarge wedges were able, in some cases, to lay in a largesupply of wood, but, as want increased, these did notlong retain possession. The police, vigilant in all mat-ters of general interest to themselves, caused those thusstocked to divide with the suffering thousands aroundthem, taking a good share for their own trouble. Withall the additional acres added to the prison grounds, wewere still crowded for room ; and if I have not contin-ually impressed the reader with our misera

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