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you?" Of course this last warning was sufficient to "'sperse de crowd." Another rule was, no lights or fires would be permitted in our camp at any time after taps were sounded; if a match was struck in our tents the negro sentinel was ordered to shoot into the tent where he saw the light. All the blankets given us at Fort Delaware were taken from us before we left the prison ship "Crescent City," which left fully two-thirds of our number with only the clothes they stood in for covering. The following order for government of our prison is the most drastic ever made by men authorized by a government claiming civilization:
Headquarters United States Forces,
Morris Island, S. C, September 7, 1864.
The following rules and regulations are hereby announced for the government of the camp of the prisoners of war:
The prisoners will be divided into eight detachments, seventy-five in each, lettered A, B, C, etc., each prisoner numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Each detachment will be under the charge of a warden, who will be detailed from
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