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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archer, and general blusterer. At a distance of from twentyto fifty yards, he would elevate his stick ; hasten down tothe squads; and bring them in place, to the singular order, Hack out—hack out there! Then he would hurry downthe line, rear and front, hunting for tin cujds, knives andforks, and such other booty as the needy rebs had stowedaway, f )r present use. He succeeded in getting quite a pileof these articles; but failed to secure many more, which werecunningly passed from one to another as the search proceeded.The grotesque appearance of this red-striped, impudent Down-Easter, as he hopped over the ground, with someMdaat lesscelerity than he once ran from rebel muskets, ordering, anddriving gentlemen, wliom in ordinary times he would havetlianked for a job of horse cleaning, was ludicrous, yet hu-miliating, and provoking in the extreme. Instead of assign-ing an officer to the business of forming and advancing theregiments—this ill-bred fellow was substituted, as though ex-
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iliiiillllil! DUBESS BY FEDERAL AUTHORITY. 145 pressly to insult and degrade our noble and care-worn veterans.At the barracks, where he occupies a sort of police post, he isknown only by the nick-name of Hack-out. His treatmentof prisoners is said to be intolerable, as he goes to and fro,knocking, with his club, any who may be so bold as to makethe least resistance to his imperative commands. Some of the best mind and blood of the South went off, to-day, clothed in rags and dirt; and many poor fellows wereentirely barefooted. I saw one, whom I knew, personally, tohave several thousand dollars about him; and yet he would,have been as little likely, as any other, to be selected by oneignorant of the fact, as a man of wealth. He stood in the rankslike all the rest, in his coarse, and half-worn homespun ; andwas only distinguished from them by an old-fashioned swallow-tailed coat, and a huge tin bucket, which he carried in hishand. Mr. John McD. Alexander, who was taken from the bar-racks

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