Identifier: scrapsfromprison00barb (find matches)
Title: Scraps from the prison table, at Camp Chase and Johnson's Island
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Barbière, Joseph, d. 1895
Subjects: Camp Chase (Ohio) Johnson's Island (Ohio) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Registers
Publisher: Doylestown, Pa., W.W.H. Davis, Printer
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ter is a modest, intelligentgentleman; Captain Bob Moore is a hearty, out-spoken,generous soldier ; Dr. Dixon is an able physician, thoroughgentleman, of gentle mien, yet with sufiicient vigor tomake his mark in the scientific world; Captain JoeWalker is from Columbia, Tennessee, is a good liver, agenial companion, and although with some vianvaishonte,has quite a pleasant address ; Lieutenant Joe Irvine is anagreeable, obliging gentleman. These gentlemen formeda pleasant society, and although comparative strangers,we lived like brothers, while tabernachng in mess 42,prison number 3, camp Chase, Ohio. To say that Moody, that fanatic had charge of the pen,is enough to convince all who know him, how well wewere treated. We were searched on our entrance, fromhat to boots, as if we had secreted stolen goods. Eighteenof us confined in a room about fourteen by eighteen feetand our cooking and washing to be done in the same , THE.NEW YORK I PUBLIC LIBRARY. ASTOR, LENOX ANDT11.D6N FOUNDATIONS.
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^ APS FROM THE PRISON TABLE. 221 room, and by at^.^j^iii^g, eighteen of ns wedged into sixbunks. In our ^Mson, number 3, containing nearly athousand prisonei.i^^.g l^^ad two sinks, about ten stepsfrom the cabin; tR \vere uncovered, about ten feet inlengtli, five in width, e^j^ a pole on each side, two inchesin diameter. The de)>., of the sinks, I am happy to say,I was not so unfortunarsg to fathom, wliich some poordevils did. The cisterns v^^e below the cabins, in thecentre of the muddy streeLe»ji(;i below the grade of thesinks, consequently, upon tbAy^-jj^^iple that all lluids willfind then* level. The water oKvnson number 3, was notas good as M<MraKs wells. In l^ second cabin from ours,there were several cases of small-jhv.^ ^^^^ \ am constrainedto say, rejLiained long enough, .(in^^te of our appeals toour custodians to remove them to tLhl^ospital,) to spreadinfection, had not an order of the ^^^ernment removedus to Johnsons Island, where we had b^ter scenery, withrations of

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