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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First my boots fell into cureless ruin, but this,
was no special hardship, as the weather had
become quite warm, and it was more pleasant,
than otherwise to go barefooted. Then part
of the underclothing retired from service.
The jacket and vest followed, their end being
hastened by having their best portions taken
to patch up the pantaloons, which kept giving
out at the most embarrassing places. Then
the cape of the overcoat was called upon ta
assist in repairing these continually-recurring
breaches in the nether garments. The same
insatiate demand finally consumed the whole
coat, in a vain attempt to prevent an exposure
of person greater than consistent with the usages of society.
The pantaloons — or what, by courtesy, I called such, were a
monument of careful and ingenious, but hopeless, patching, that
should have called forth the admiration of a Florentine artist
in mosaic. I have been shown — in later years — many table
tops, ornamented in marquetry, inlaid with thousands of little
bits of wood, cunningly arranged, and patiently joined together.
I always look at them with interest, for I know the work spent
upon them : I remember my Andersonville pantaloons.
The clothing upon the upper part of my body had been
reduced to the remains of a knit undershirt. It had fallen into
Text Appearing After Image:
THE AUTHOR'S APPEAR-
ANCE ON ENTERING
PRISON.

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