Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...Johnson's Island," describes the hardships, from the point of view of a Confederate prisoner, of a sojourn in the war prison in Lake Erie, near Sandusky. Only officers were confined on Johnson's Island; and according to Lieutenant Carpenter they were for months at the mercy of hunger and freezing weather...
...then, did it happen that this last outbreak occurred? Briefly, it was the last uprising of heathenism, a manifestation of savage impatience. The old chiefs, discontented with the present, looked back on the past and remembered only the times when they shot the buffalo, forgetting the intermediate periods of hunger; they forget the days in their youth when they were ill-clad, and remember only the festal days when their bodies were gaudily decorated...