Lights and shadows in Confederate prisons

Chapter 6

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Continual Hope of Exchange of Prisoners--"Flag-of-Truce Fever!"--Attempted Escape by Tunneling--Repeated Escapes by Members of Water Parties, and how we Made the Roll-Call Sergeant's Count Come Out all Right every Time--Plot to Break Out by Violence, and its Tragic End 106