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, December 22, 1895.]
A very graphic description.
Experience at Johnson's Island and Point Lookout—Pickett's charge at Gettysburg—The cavalry fight at Boonesboro, Maryland.
The following gaccount of prison life at Johnson's Island, and the writer, in speaking of his short stay at Point Lookout, after his release, says:
Thinking we had exhausted the capacity of prison life for hashland anchor out in the bay, and heard the call for Gettysburg prisoners.
We were to go to Point Lookout; had never heard of the place, and knew nothing about it; but we knew it could not be any worse than the place we were in, and were glad of any change.
At Point Lookout we had tents-seventeen men to a tent.
Our rations were no better, but we could bathe, and that was a great luxury to us..
I had been in prison twenty months, three and a half at Fort Delaware, and seventeen at Point Lookout.
We were paroled in March, and a pitiful set of men we were.
I weighed barely ninety pou
Scott, Colonel, John, 259.
Scouts of Hampton, Butler and Wheeler, 26.
Sherman's Army, Bummers of, 27.
Slavery in the South, 367.
South, Contributions of, to the Greatness of the Union, 1; its Army as compared with the Federal, 1861-1861, 5; its gifts of territory, 7; its valor in war, 9; its fidelity to principles, 11; its influence in the forming of the Union its aid in industrial greatness, 14; its grand future, 21.
Southern Soldiers in Northern Prisons; John-son's Island, Point Lookout, and Fort Delaware, 158.
Southern Historical Society, 381.
Spirit of 1776 and of 1861, 336.
Spotsylvania C. H Battle of, 50.
State, Raleigh, N. C., cited, 165, 189.
State, Columbia, S C , cited, 25.
State, N. O., La., cited, 82.
Stonewall Brigade, 56; Battles of the, 56.
Strange, Colonel, John Bowie, 298.
Stuart, General J. E. B., Tribute to, 202; at Gettysburg, 212, 216; defence of, 238, 348.
Suffolk, Va., Occupation of, 66.
Swift Creek, Va., Engagement at