From The Immortal Captives by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn
Morris Island
For Rations we were furnished with three army crackers per day, and a half pint of soup. The crackers were issued in the morning and I the following manner: Two poles eight or ten feet long were attached one to either side of a cracker box, forming a kind of hand litter, which was borne by two negros, one walking in front, the other behind. As the box passed our tents, if no one was ready to receive the crackers, the corporal in charge would throw them to us, giving each his daily allowance.
About noon the half pint of soup was passed. It was called bean soup, but we could never discover any trace of that vegetable in the mixture. In this way we were fed during the forty-four days of our imprisonment at Morris Island.
2nd Lt. Worth George
26 Virginia. Inf.
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