Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-04-26

stick Of wood. They had been without
80 much they did not like to see a stick
wasted. When we got off the cars most
every man had stick of wood big enough |
to do his cooking week. We lay in a
field the first night with a strong infantry
guard around us and cavalry picket
outside of that. The next morning we
were put inside the stockade with ten
thousand others. Just before we got to
the gate saw rail down in the ditch
l threw away my wood and picked up
the rail,-This we split into strips to
fasten up our blankets. When the first
two or three thousand wcnt in, it was
pretty much all woods, but they had got
the timber nearly all used up building
houses. What was not used up in this
way was either cut up for wood, or claim
ed by somebody. We asked the boys
how they Jared ?-Tbey said we should
find out soon enough; worse than Ander-
sonville some said.-For week or two
we did fare hard. Tuesday, October 9th
we got six spoonfuls of beans and two of
meal. Some days we did not get so much
as that; we seldom ever got meat of any
kind. In little while we had got all
the stumps cut down, wood had got scarce.
The nights here were very frosty. Some
times we had to lay awake all night and
shiver and shake. We could not get
wood enough to keep fires. Ice froze
sometimes an inch and half thick
Many that had to lay without blankets,
froze their feet, and some froze to death.
The inside of the pen was great deal
like Andcrsonviile. There was a big
mud hole through the centre through
which the brook run; we had to get our
water out of this brook We had to wade
through mud in wet weather sometimes
knee deep to get to the brook 1t was
very good water. The greatest nuisance
here was, not wild hogs, but wild lice,
but they were too easily tanned; there
was any quantity of them, They seemed
to come out of the ground. We used tt
take off our clothes every day and otter
twice day and look them over and mur.
der them without mercy. We could moi
keep them off entirely Many got veal
or lazy and neglected to look their clothes
over for perhaps week. Their clothes
were completely covered. There were
probably thousands that died on account
of these fellows. They were often as larg'
as kernel of wheat.-There were sevc
raj kinds; one kind was white, another
black, and another kind was blood red
these belonged to the bloodsuckcr breed
They would get into mems hair and whis
kers, and eat them baldheaded and whis
kerless. They deprived us of much sleep
by skirmishing on our backs; they Otter
charged bayonet. But | don't like t.
dwell upon such a crawling subject
) was not so healthy here as at Anderson
vile. On the Goth of October, Georg
Dewey, and myself went to the hospital
but the accommodations were so mucl
; poorer there that we went back the mex
day. All the hospital there was wa
n crotches stuck into the ground aud pole
I laid across and pine brush laid agains
r the poles. Our rations were no bette
s than in the stockade; we did not get an
$ medicine. The boys were dying off b
c hundreds. Afterwards the hospital wa
s moved inside the stockade, and barrack
e were built. and they got better ration'
i and medicine once in a while. Sam Pal
}, ker, Of Co H. went fishing in the cree
e Sunday, October 10, and caught a mu
h turtle and ate it. He was taken sic
!. soon after, and died the Goth / went
f the hospital again the ooth of Novombe
II We got loaf Of bread about six incht
'e square, and pint of rice soup every da!
IS and medicine every other day. The col
Ie veniences we're poor for they had not
yet got the hospital finished. Drops,
scurvy and diarrhea, were the prlncip'
diseases. There were some awful cases
scurvy. Men all rotten and yet aliv
lp Let any one 60 there and stay week an
10 what they would see there, would be ind
to scribable. Things transpired every da
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