. Osservazioni di un ragazzo dell'Illinois in battaglia, campo e carceri-1861 a 1865. Incapace di alzarsi ha lasciato frequentemente per i giorni e la settimana prima di riferire all'ospedale. Venne sempre inaccompagnato da un grande uomo, portando un vecchio barile di moschettile nella sua formina. Anche tre o quattro guardie lo accompagnarono. L'uomo con la barrelgenerale musket aiutò a mettere in fila i ragazzi con i cuciti. La chiamata del rullo ha avuto luogo all'inizio della giornata, dopo di che inizieremmo a scherzare per i greybacks (come lo abbiamo chiamato) di cui tutti abbiamo avuto un buon rifornimento. Questa occupazione ci ha aiutato a passare alcune delle lunghe, noiose ore di

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. Observations of an Illinois boy in battle, camp and prisons-1861 to 1865 . unable to rise he frequently left for days and weeksbefore reporting to the hospital. He always came inaccompanied by a large man, carrying an old musketbarrel in his hantl. Three or four guards also ac-companied him. The man with the musket barrelgenerally helped to get the boys in line by cuffingthem. Roll call took place early in the day, afterwhich we would begin skirmishing for graybacks ( as we called it) of which we all had a good supply. This occupation helped us to pass away some ofthe long, tedious hours of our confinement. Someperhaps do not understand what is meant by the word grayback, which I will now explain. A graybackis a small, carnivorous insect—or plainly speaking a IX BATTLE, CAMP AND PRISONS^ Gl-G^ 147 louse—which infests the inner g-arnients of a personwho is unauie to ciiange his clothing frequently, whichwas the case with us in the prisons. In fact we neverchanged our garments while in prison. It was notstylish to do so, and if it had been we could not. as. Skinnishing for Graybacks. we possessed only what we had on our backs and theychanged themselves. Some were obliged to wear theirshirts until they literally wore off, or were kickedto pieces by the graybacks and fell from their backs.I will now explain what is meant by skirmishing. It 148 IN BATTLE, CAMP AND PRISONS, 6l-65 was taking off our shirts, turning them inside out, and carefully searching for and killing the graybacks, which were sometimes very numerous, and tormentedns in such a way at night that we were scarcely ableto sleep. The mode of killing these gra^/backs was as fol-lows : As stated before, the garment was turned in-side out, and then the game was soon found, over-taken and slain. Our weapons consisted of ourthumb nails. The hands were placed near each otherin about the position that a person would hold themwhen knitting with knitting needkS, with the upperpart of the thumb nails nearly touchi

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• bookyear1910