Prison Life in the Old Capitol And Reminiscences of the Civil War
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The building is open to the wind, and so cold that it is impossible to sleep comfortably.
At Parole Camp I see a great many prisoners who have been incarcerated in Northern prisons, princi pally Camp Chase, Camp Douglas and Johnson s Island. They all corroborate the statements made to me by the Western prisoners with whom I conversed while in the Old Capitol, regarding the treatment of prisoners.
I was speaking to one of my companions who was complaining of the short rations and cold comforts a...t Camp Parole, when one of the released prisoners who had but recently arrived, said : "You should not complain of the fare and treatment here. It is nothing compared to what we had to go through on Johnson s Island. Of course it is hard liv ing here, but we know it can t be helped ; there was no excuse for it there. What we suffered there was from pure cussedness. The Yankees have plenty of every thing and could certainly give prisoners enough to eat if they chose plain, cheap food enough to sustain life in a healthy condition, but they didn t.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The building is open to the wind, and so cold that it is impossible to sleep comfortably.
At Parole Camp I see a great many prisoners who have been incarcerated in Northern prisons, princi pally Camp Chase, Camp Douglas and Johnson s Island. They all corroborate the statements made to me by the Western prisoners with whom I conversed while in the Old Capitol, regarding the treatment of prisoners.
I was speaking to one of my companions who was complaining of the short rations and cold comforts a...t Camp Parole, when one of the released prisoners who had but recently arrived, said : "You should not complain of the fare and treatment here. It is nothing compared to what we had to go through on Johnson s Island. Of course it is hard liv ing here, but we know it can t be helped ; there was no excuse for it there. What we suffered there was from pure cussedness. The Yankees have plenty of every thing and could certainly give prisoners enough to eat if they chose plain, cheap food enough to sustain life in a healthy condition, but they didn t.
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