Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-05-31


settled TO the bottom ofthe tub. To keep peace ia
the family 10 cesslry 70 exercise great care in
Distributing the rat ons, which were delivered In
bu K 70 the chieii and by him given out Thu exer
else OF any fAvOritism would esult in fsht and
TINS would often occur with the loss Of life To
AVOID any thing OF the kind IN our squad, it sub
divided into squads Of ten men. When everyone
had con idence To the deal" and received h. pro-
IOru0ni however little, there was generally no
trouble. The bread and meat was brought 10 Us Ga
s-vN ooal rom RICHMOND. To make show Of being
half civilized the authorities would sometimes send
over a few collins on the boat Famishins Nth
hunger, frequently the prisoners would watch the
whole day long for the coming Of the boat with
bread, but be compelled 10 return at gt with the
Gn~elcome intelligence that the boat hat arrived
with no bread but cofns This at least was sugzes-
tive. For days at time We received no bread, but
were constantly reminded Of cOfius Men were
swept away as II by plague and It was a common
saying that, they all die easy" scurvy visitet
the camp among other diseases and claimed large
number Of vic inns. This vas an insidious foe The
teeth Of the victims would become loosensd and
drop from their sOskets the feet refuse to do their
bidding, and at last the body would become nara
yZed and fall asleep in death. The ordinary cam
diseases prevailed to an alarming extent anu there
was no medical aid.
There we're no hospitals on the Island, FOR any
one appointed to look alter the sick. On one o,c-
sion two OF three men cane over fom tas city with
few jugs Of blackberry tea This was all the met
icine saw. Two or three times they took a few Of
the sick away TO the city who were already strtck-
with death. never knew OF but one man who was
taken % the city hospital and lived, and this was
Fred Faulkner German. who formerly resde1 in
this city, and worked for DR. Heneburg. Faulkner
had been good friend 70 me he had carried my
blanket on the march, and when il was nearly worn
out, and sickness had overtaken me on the Island.
he gave me hisand slept with none. lie was equally
Kind and oblising to others, and though Of lo@ly
pretensions, may his good name endure forever
Probably, for various reasons not worth mention
ing, greater consideration was beloved upon the
chief Of the 20th squad than any otner one Of the
members yet as he often received his "knck nacssn
from a more favored prisoner, or "A extra loaf OF
bread from the rebels he devded with his old camp
mates. Fere the true characters OF nan would ue-
Come exhibited. The exercise Of reason and kint-
ness was almost out of the question. Every one,
almost became extremely Sc hsh, and lost all conf
dence In his neighhOr. The best were barely hu-
man In our camp were 10 be found the represent
atvCs Of all classes at home, from the best schools
in the land and the brightest ornaments Of the
home Giro g. to the miserable gangs Of thieves and
shou hitters from the large cities Old Marshal
Winder on duty in Richmond. took especial delight
in yistine Us with others of mis- kidney, to torture
those who would listea TO him. The ladies Ct Rca-
mopd the ''top-knots," "what nots," frequent
Nv visited US also. and showed their appreciation OF
our situation by turning Up their aristOeTati,
noses.
As often times looked over to the fendish city
and listened TO their bands Of music, while uohle
men were dying from exposure and starvation
around me- 1 wished that JEFF Davis with his games
Of might be reduced TO the fare thew ave
Us. Later could only express my regrets that the