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Title: The knightly soldier: a biography of Major Henry Ward Camp, Tenth Conn. vols
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Trumbull, H. Clay (Henry Clay), 1830-1903
Subjects: Camp, Henry Ward, 1839-1964 United States. Army. Connecticut Infantry Regiment, 10th (1861-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Boston, Nichols and Noyes New York, O. S. Felt
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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f uniformly toward us; but it was the good-natureof a beast, needing only provocation to turn it into ferocity.He was telling us of various attempts to escape from jail;among others, one of a negro, who, in so doing, broke orotherwise injured some of the jail property. I gin thatnigger, said he, rather a light Hoggin. Cut him upsome; but he didnt think as twas anyways differentfrom a common floo-o-in. But when I came to wash himdown, instead of brine, I washed him down with red pep-per ; poured it right on to the raw, good and strong. Thenhe knew what I meant. Pretty nigh killed the oldnigger! This story he related without the slightestapparent idea that it was otherwise than creditable to him.We had been rather amused with the man hitherto; butthis was enough for us. During the next day, we received a call from two orthree gentlemen, — one of them a graduate of Princeton ;another, the editor of the Chesterville Standard. Theywere curious, they said, to see some Northerners who were
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COLUMBIA JAIL. 201 not tired of the war; and wished to learn something ofthe state of public sentiment among us. A lively discus-sion followed, conducted with the same freedom as thosein which we had engaged before. These, however, weredifferent antagonists from our country friends, familiarwith the North and its people, and well-informed upon thequestions at issue. Bitter almost to desperation in theirhostility to Government, men of influence and standing,they were fair samples of the class which keeps SouthCarolina in her present position. Our Princeton friendbecame somewhat excited by the plainness with which welaid down the programme of subjugation, and our confi-dence in its success, though he did not allow himself tobe led into discourtesy, and finally left the room in advanceof his friends. In the afternoon, Lieutenant Belcher of the ColumbiaPost-Guard arrived with a guard to escort the prisonersto their old place of confinement. He bound the elbowsof both, and then tied them t

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