Identifier: andersonvilles00mcel (find matches)
Title: Andersonville : a story of Rebel military prisons, fifteen months a guest of the so-called southern confederacy : a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: McElroy, John, 1846-1929
Subjects: Andersonville Prison United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: Toledo : D. R. Locke
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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they were saving up for fuel. They sold these to thePlymouth folks at the rate of ten dollars for three — enoughto put up a blanket. The most considerable trading was done through the gates.The Eebel guards were found quite as keen to barter as theyhad been in Richmond. Though the laws against their dealingin the money of the enemy were still as stringent as ever, theirthirst for greenbacks was not abated one whit, and they wereready to sell anything they had for the coveted currency. Therate of exchange was seven or eight dollars in Confederatemoney for one dollar in greenbacks. Wood, tobacco, meat,flour, beans, molasses, onions and a villainous kind of whisky, 172 Ain)EESONVILLE. made from sorghum, were the staple articles of trade. A wholerace of little traffickers m these articles sprang up, and finallySelden, the Eebel Quartermaster, established a sutler shop inthe center of the Xorth Side, which he put in cnarge of IraBeverly, of the One Hundredth Ohio, and Charlie Iluckleby,
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MTONIOnT ATTACK OF THE RAIDERS. of the Eighth Tennessee. It was a fine illustration of thedevelopment of the commercial instinct in some men. Xomore unlikely place for making money could be imagined,yet starting in without a cent, the) contrived to turn andtwist and trade, until they had transferred to their pocketsa portion of the funds which were in some one elses.The Eebels, of course, got nine out of every ten dollars therewas in the prison, but these middle men contrived to have a littleof it stick to their fingers. It was only the very few who were able to do this. Kinehundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand were, like my- A 8T0EY OF EEBEL MILITAEY PRISONS. 173 self, either wholly destitute of money and unable to get it fromanybody else, or they paid out what money they had to themiddlemen, in exorbitant prices for articles of food. The NYaarkers had still anotlier metliod for gettmg food,money, blankets and clothing. They formed little bandscalled Raiders, under the leade

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