The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05
Some working gutta percha,
Some walking in de yard,
And many of de gentry lib
By throwing of de card.


And many of de gentry lib
By throwing of de card.
Chorus
Dere's tailors and shoemakers,
Some French and Latin teaching,
Some scratching of de tiger,
While anoder one is preaching.
Some cooking up de rations
And some swapping clothes
While crowd Of Hilton Headers
Is grabbing niger shoes;
Chorus
Dere's anoder lot of fellows.
Charming dogs, dey are;
Dey get an empty barrel
And den set up a bar.
Get some vinegar and lasses,
De whisky is too dear;
And mix it wild potato skins,
And den dey call it beer.
Chorus
Whar de galvanized are quartered,
There lives jolly crowd;
Some colonies and some majors,
Wild a general or two.
Dem big bugs hab some privileges,
Dey hab private guard,
And go just whar dey choose,
1ASSPt OulSfuc Qe SudIQ.
Chorus
But no matter what you're doing,
One thing am berry sartin-
Dat ebry one am ready
From prison to be startin.'
Dis very sad reflection
Makes ebrybody grieve,
For not a single debble knows
When he is gwine TO leave.
Chorus
Now white folks here's a moral:
Dere's muffin true below;
Dis world is but a later patch,
De debbirs got a hoe;
Ebry one has trouble here,
You may go near or far,
But de most unlucky debble,
Am a prisoner of war.
Mr.. Horace A. Crane, whose name APP
pears among those mentioned, was shown
the book yesterday. He was very much in
terested in the relic, but could recall only
one or two of those whose names are
given. As there were 2,700 officers in prison
at Fort Delaware at the time it is not
strange that Mr.. Crane should remember
only a few of the comparatively small
Lieut.. Stevens book.
The letters &C. s. l." after Mr.. Cranes
name stand for Confederate States In
valid Crops" Mr.. Crane, who originally
left Savannah with the Oglethorpe Light
Infantry, was promoted TO a lieutenancy
in the Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion,
which was organized at Savannah by Gen.
Robert II. Anderson. At the battle OF
Chickamauga he was shot through the
foot and the wound was so severe that il
threatened to cripple him for life. He. was
sent to Savannah to recuperate, and hav-
ing partially recovered applied to be re-
turned to service. Not being entirely re-
covered he was attached to the invalid
corps, and assigned to duty at Fort Me-
Allister, where he was captured when
Sherman came through Savannah.
There were about $50 of us in the
fort, officers and ALL" said Mr.. Crane.
There were several hundred Confed-
crate stragglers in Savannah at the time
who were picked up by the Union army
The captured prisoners to the number Of
800 or 600, were put aboard the steamship
Cahaba and sent North, the officers being
taken to Fort Delaware. II was the dead
of winter when we arrived there, a chan
mel being kept open through the ice 70
the fort. / remained at the prison until
June, when we were released and given
transportation to our homes"
1.-THE treatment of the prisoners was as
good as could be expected" said Mr.
Crane. 1.-THE policy of the guards seemed
to be to let us strictly alone so long rs
we did not attempt to cross the dead line.
One man was killed while doing this
thoughtlessly, but / saw no foundation for
the stories of the atrocities practioed to-
ward the prisoners, of which we had
heard a great deal. We were quartered
in a large one-story wooden building,
which was cut up into divisions. There
were three tiers of wooden hunks in each
division and on these the men slept, with
TIER heads to the wall and their feet