Identifier: reminiscencesorf00dyer (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences, or, Four years in the Confederate Army : a history of the experiences of the private soldier in camp, hospital, prison, on the march, and on the battlefield, 1861 to 1865
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Dyer, Jno. Will Dyer, Amelia W
Subjects: Dyer, Jno Will Confederate States of America. Army Military life
Publisher: Evansville, Ind. : Keller Print. and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s and equipments.Going with the boys to the government lot where therewas a large number of horses and mules, the general toldthem to go in and If you come out worse mounted thanyou was before, it will be your own fault. Most of theboys stuck to their old horses that had shared their pasttrials and dangers, but jnany of them came out withbetter mounts than they had ever possesed. The Generaldid not know^ that we w^ere in prison or he would have hadus out, too. Our foot squad stayed in prison and reveled in good(?)grub for three days. Our rations consisted of three armycrackers and a piece of raw codfish of the size of a crackerissued to us each morning. We had nothing to cook andno fire to cook it on, but there was a good well of waterin the prison and fortunately the supply was not limitedand by punching more holes in our belts and by drawingthem tighter every day, we managed to hold out for threedays, when they decided to send us on. This was our most annoying experience. We had our
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BY A PRIVATE SOLDIER. ^01 ^heads set for home, had the right to go on and to be de-tained by a little shoulder-strapped ujistart who neversmelt powder was very aggravating 1 can assure you; butwe lived through it and after we got started on our wayagain, soon forgot it. Such is a soldiers life. He takes his chances andmakes the most of his experiences. Enjoying his victor-ies, he soon forgets defeat and is ready for another trial. It may seem strange that General Williams couldkeep his men out of prison and I should fail with mine, asw^e were both subject to the same conditions under theterms of surrender, but I think I can explain. General Williams was a general and ranked theProvost Marshal, who was a captain, and they bothranked me, who could only sport three chevrons. Thegeneral weighed 320 pounds, while I only weighed 204,which gave him the weight over me. The P. M., backedby his bayonets, also outranked me; so that w^eight andthe argument(?) were against me. Then the General had

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