Inside of Rock Island Prison : From December, 1863, to June, 1865 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Inside of Rock Island Prison: From December, 1863, to June, 1865

His letter to that effect is dated June 6, 1864. And on the following. Loth the retaliatory order of Secretary of War Stanton was put in force in Northern prisons - at least, it was in Rock Island Prison. Whatever may have bee'n lacking of a full ration prior to that date was not a serious privation, for we had become accustomed in the field to not feel the lack of one, two, or even three meals in succession. But then the conditions were different.

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