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" ... and yet the heart, by a strange inconsistency, kept up its throbs, and preserved the physical being of a hundred and fifty wretched captives, who, no doubt, often prayed to die. Few persons can have any idea of a long imprisonment in the South. They... "
Four Years in Secessia: Adventures Within and Beyond the Union Lines ... - Page 318
by Junius Henri Browne - 1866 - 450 pages
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Life and Death in Rebel Prisons: Giving a Complete History of the Inhuman ...

Robert H. Kellogg - United States - 1865 - 424 pages
...any idea of a long imprisonment in the South. They usually regard it merely as an absence of freedom, a deprivation of the pleasures and excitements of...scant and miserable rations that no one, unless he be half-famished, can eat; the necessity of going cold and hungry in the wet and wintry season; the constant...
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The Capture, the Prison Pen, and the Escape: Giving a Complete History of ...

Willard W. Glazier - Prisoners of war - 1868 - 432 pages
...havo any idea of a long imprisonment in the South. They usually regard it as an absence of freedom, a deprivation of the pleasures and excitements of...scant and miserable rations that no one, unless he be half-famished, can eat; the necessity of going cold and hungry in the wet and wintry season; the constant...
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The Capture, the Prison Pen, and the Escape: Giving a Complete History of ...

Willard W. Glazier - United States - 1869 - 426 pages
...havo any idea of a long imprisonment in the South. They usually regard it as an absence of freedom, a deprivation of the pleasures and excitements of...scant and miserable rations that no one, unless he be half-famished, can eat; the necessity of going cold and hungry in the wet and wintry season; the constant...
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Eighteen Months a Prisoner Under the Rebel Flag: A Condensed Pen-picture of ...

Samuel S. Boggs - Illinois - 1887 - 106 pages
...preserved the physical being of a portion of those wretched captives, who no doubt often prayed to die. " Take into consideration the scant and miserable rations...necessity of going cold and hungry in the wet and wintry weather ; the constant torture of vermin which no care nor precaution can free one ; the total isolation...
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George W. Alexander and Castle Thunder: A Confederate Prison and Its Commandant

Frances Harding Casstevens - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 284 pages
...usually regard it merely as an absence of freedom — as a deprivation of the pleasures and excitement of ordinary life. They do not take into consideration...and wintry season; the constant torture from vermin ... the total isolation, the supreme dreariness, the dreadful monotony, the perpetual turning inward...
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