Identifier: swordpenorventura00owen (find matches)
Title: Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Owens, John Algernon
Subjects: Glazier, Willard, 1841-1905 Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Philadelphia : P.W. Ziegler and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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emes for escape.—The freemasonry of misfortune.—Plot and counter-plot.—The pursuit of pleasure under diflSculties. IT does not come within the scope of the presentwork to enter into a detailed description of thesufferings of the Union prisoners in this place ofdurance: those who have a taste for such gloomythemes may gratify it by reading the first work by ouryoung soldier-author, entitled The Capture, Prison-Pen and Escape, in which the horrors of that houseof misery are eloquently described. We may, how-ever, say this much, that if the testimony of eye-wit-nesses is to be credited, it was a fearful place, and oneover whose portals the words of Dante might havebeen appropriately inscribed, All ye who enter hereabandon hope. Of some thousand Northern officers confined here,Glazier, of course, met several from his own corps, whohad been previously captured. He at first felt hiscondition very acutely. His roving life amid themagnificent scenery of Virginia, Maryland and Penn-(166)
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MAJOR TURNER. 167 sylvania was now exchanged for the gloomy andmonotonous routine of a prison ; but he writes underdate of October twenty-eighth, in a more reconciledand hopeful strain I am gradually, he says, be-coming accustomed to this dungeon life, and I pre-sume I shall fall into the habit of enjoying myself attimes. ^How use doth breed a habit in a man/Indeed he can accommodate himself to almost anyclime or any circumstance of life, a gift of adaptationno other living thing possesses in any such degree.Of one man, in the midst of all his philosophy,our hero speaks very bitterly. We allude to MajorTurner, military warden of the prison. He de-scribes him as possessed of a vindictive, depraved,and fiendish nature, and moralizes over the man andhis career in this wise: There is nothing more terrible than a human soulgrown powerful in sin, and left to the horrible machi-nations of the evil one, and its own evil promptings.Demons developed from germs that might have pro-duced seraphs,

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