Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-03-15

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or five for a dollar. Beans, raw, twenty
cents pint, baked scventy-fvc. Bean
soup or bean water ten cents cup. klce
fifty cents pint. Any one could live
if they ouly had plenty of money but
a miser's bag would soon become empty
1t was agravating to 60 by the stands
spread with biscuit and eggs and not red
to nut our hand on. There was some o0
or 60 negro prisoners that wero taken out
every day to work; when they came IN at
night they would bring in stuff and sell
at an enormous price and make money
Some of the white prisoners would curse
the black man because he Jared so much
better than they.
Wells were dug in various parts of the
camp These were dug with spoons and
half canteens, the dirt drawn up in cups.
Picks or shove!s we were not allowed to
have for fear we should dig tunnels under
the stockade and get away.-Sometimes
the men would tunnel under and dig fif-
teen or twenty feet beyond the stockade,
then dig up, make an air hole and wait
for a dark fight. In digging tunnels the
men would work nights and with spoon
or knife blade would pick up the dirt,
scrapc it up with half canteens, put it in
their haversacks and carry it out and scat
ter it around. But if, when they went
ont they we're not noticed by the guard
and shot dead, the boodhounds would
pursue and run them down so that very
few would ever get to our lines.-In dig
ging they had to be very careful aud not
let anybody know that tunnel was in
progress. for some Of our own men were
mean enough to tell of it for small piece
of tobacco.
On the 10th of July, Sergt G. Ranger
planted few kernels of corn that he had
in his pocket, they came up the next day
and on the 23d the stalks were | | inches
high. | don't know as this is worth tel
ling Of but it seems to me this is little
faster than corn generally grows on faith
ers farm. When we left, the 10th of
of Sept. the stalks were large enough to
knock down an OK with.
chaplain of the 9th R. |. Heavy Ar
tillery in letter to lions Herald, speak
ing of the prisoners at Andersonville
says -
Most of the men were sick. The
corn bread and corn meal did not agree
with them and their systems soon became
impaired, and diarrhea would set in, and
they would grow weaker and weaker and
finally die almost without pain. Often a
man would get up aud walk down to the
brook to get drink and return and lie
down and in few moments be dead. In
some instances men would be walking
along in conversation, when one would
fall and instantly expire. When the ra-
tions we're issued. these men that were Sc
weak would get none and so the frail
would have no chance for life, and would
soon be gone No one was taken to the
hospital so long as he could walk, and SC
great numbers died without being taker
there at all. The hospital consisted of 0
number of small tents pitched outside
the stockade. There were no hunks, bed.
or blankets, but the men were laid OF
the ground. From 40 to so men wer,
9 dying each day, and the mortality after
wards increased to as high as 200 pei
day. So numerous were the dead thai
often the burial detail would get behind
, and a hundred dead men would remair
q over till the next day. trench wa.
dug 8 feet wide, 8 feet deep, and Ions
enough to lay hundred men side by
side. Another trench was then dug
through the centre of this one, six fee
wide aud some twenty inches deep. Tb,
. corpses were then placed in their grave
side by side heads all one wav and tho,
brush was thrown in and the whole GOV
! cred with dirt. As soon as man died
y theywould remove what clothing he had t.
s use themselves, as it was thought wron,
e to bury men with clothing when other
r were nearly or quite naked"
\ Dana Clough Of Irasburgh, died on tn
night of the 9th of July. He Law he