The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1882-06-22

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we're left with shirt and pantaloons.
These lay in groups, often wet
through with rain at night, and ex-
posed to the heat OF the sun during
the day. With such, night and day
we're alike to be dreaded.
The terrible rains OF June we're
prolific OF disease and death. II
rained almost iucessantly night and
day during the whole month.
Those Of the prisoners who were
not by nature possessed Of unyield.
ing courage and iron constitutions
broke down under the terrible innic-
tions Of hunger, exposure, and men,
tai torments.
The scenes that mot the eye on
every side we're not calculated to
give hopeful tendencies to the mind
distressed by physical and mental
torture.
Men died at 30 rapid q rate that
ono often found himself wondering
and speculating when and how his
turn would come; for surety il
must come, and that soon, seemed
inevitable under the existing circum'
stances.
No words can express the terrible
suffering which hunger and exposure
inflicted upon the luckless inmates
of Andersonville Prison.
During one week we estimated the
deaths at thirteen hundred and
eighty.Gve men. All starved to
death.
Death lost all its scantity by rea-
son of its frequent occurrence, and
because Of the inability of suffering
men, liable at any moment to expe
rience like fate, to help others.
To show funeral honors in the way
OF our sorrow for tho dead. or sootho
the last moments of the dying, was
impracticable, If not impossible.
Those whose natures had not rais-
ed them superior to fate, lost their
good bumor and gayety, and pined
away in hopeless repiuings-dream-
ing of home, and giving way to mel
aucboly forebodeings, which could
be productive Of no good results.
Others. Of an opposite mould of
character, whom nothing could daunt,
still retained something of their M
tural gayety and humor amid all the
wretchedness by which they were
surrounded. To such. trials aud
difficulties we're but so many incen
tives to surmount and overcome. II
the prisoner gave way to languor
and weakness, and failed to take ne
cessary exercise-if he did not dis
pose his mind to take cheerful views
of his condition, and look upon the
bright side of that which seemed to
be but darkness and misory-be
might as well give up the hope ol
life at once.
, In prison ono must adapt himself
: to the circumstances which threaten
to crowd him out of existence, or die
He must look upon filth. dirt, innum.
erable vermin, and even death, with
complacency, and not distress him
self about that which is unavoidable
he must never cease battling
against all these prison horrors.
No matter If he did know that bis
cooked beans had been shoveled from
a cart in which, a few hours before,
the dead had been piled ON, and TAX
en- to the grave-yard-he could not
afford to get disgusted and reject the
sustenance on that account. He
must eat the food aud adapt himself
and his appetite to relish the dose,
which Is not 30 difficult to nan
when very hungry. There must be
a general closing up OF the avenues
of delicacy and sersibility. and COR
responding opening Of all that is
cheerful and truly hope in ones ma
ture. l do not mean that hope
which buoys one up by unreasona-
BILE anticipations, and which, when
disappointed, becomes despair.
To be Continued.