Identifier: unitedstatesbond00inhand (find matches)
Title: United States bonds; or Duress by federal authority : a journal of current events during an imprisonment of fifteen months, at Fort Delaware
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Handy, Isaac W. K., 1815-1878
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Publisher: Baltimore : Turnbull Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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hem of theburning sensation. After a while, being brought to some de-gree of composure, I resumed my hard bed, and towards morn-ing had the good fortune to fall asleep. A number of prisoners from the barracks came into theFort-yard, this morning, to get water, and to remove some bed-ding. Several of them croM^ding into a rece&s, out of sight ofthe sentinels, we soon found that the poor fellows were suffer-ing for food, and two or three of our party threw them some-thing to eat. The supply of bread, in all the rooms, seemedtolerably full, and we succeeded in getting a dozen or moreloaves, which were thrown out to the sufferers in halves andquarters. It distressed me, to see the eagerness with whichthey threw up their hands, to catch at every piece. Somewho got more than their share, crammed the scraps hastilyinto their dirty pockets, or hid them in their shirt bosoms.After we had no more to give them, some still waited, anx-iously, for a morsel. What a shame to humanity, that these
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DTfKESS BY FEDERAL AUTHOEITY. 47 poor men should be subjected to such systematic cruelty, asIS said to be practised here ! The political prisoners, so far,have bread enough and to spare, and would gladly dividetheir surplus with the prisoners of war, but it is contrary toorders; the object being, I suppose, to starve the Confederatesinto taking the oath. I endeavored to encourage them, andevery time I threw a piece of biead, exclaimed, Stand fast,boys ! Dont take the oath I Some of them answered em-phatically, No ! No ! lhe convicts — or Company Q, as they are called — had ageneral cleaning up, this morning. The betiding has beenstrewed all over the yard, throughout the day, and the quar-ters have undergone a good whitewashing. The destructionof vermin has, doubtless, been on the largest scale. Got hold of a New York Herald, and had quite a com-pany in the room to hear its contents. No news; but allwere eager to catch the smallest itesa. In cleaning out a box, received about a wee

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