Collections of a Coffee Cooler: Consisting of Daily Prison Scenes in Andersonville, Ga;, And Florence, S. C., With Poetic Effusions on for Aging, Army ... Death, and the Soldier's Funeral, Silen - Hardcover

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Was captured with our command at Plymouth North Carolina, on April 20, 1864, after three days' battle, by the Confederate General Hoke's command, aided by the iron clad ram Albemarle, and after delivering to our captors our arms and accoutre ments were marched outside the town and given one day's rations for three days' marching; a speedy introduction to the new bill Of fare. We arrived at Tarboro, N. C., tired and hungry; corn-meal was given us in limited quantity, the Tar river supplied us water and chips and bark were used as a sub stitute for spoons'. We were from this place ship ped by, rail to Rocky Mount on the Weldon railroad, and wondering quietly, but attentively, how many soldiers could be conveniently packed in a freight h_fi.

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