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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Prison experience. (search)
Prison experience. By James T. Wells, Sergeant Company A, Second South Carolina Infantry.
No. 2.
About this time (January, 1864) General B. F. Butler was made Commissary of Prisoners, and in the discharge of his duty he paid us a visit.
He was welcomed in such a manner as a parcel of defiant Rebels could welcome him, with hisses, curses and groans; notwithstanding which, he made us some good promises.
Among others, that we should be better treated, have more wood, more food and plenty of clothes.
As we knew this to be so many idle words, it produced no effect upon us. He did not seem to have formed a favorable impression of the Confederate authorities.
One of his first acts towards better treatment was to relieve one of the white regiments as a guard, and place in its stead the Thirty-sixth North Carolina colored regiment.
This was a severe blow to us. On the 25th of February they arrived, accoutred in their military glory.
They were quite a curiosity to many, as they h