This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...trees were trimmed and set as posts, forming a quadrangle about seven feet long, and wide in proportion to the number of men "in cahoots." Supports and braces ran back and forth between them; then smaller horizontal beams, also of rough pine, were run from post to post, about two and a half feet above the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...trees were trimmed and set as posts, forming a quadrangle about seven feet long, and wide in proportion to the number of men "in cahoots." Supports and braces ran back and forth between them; then smaller horizontal beams, also of rough pine, were run from post to post, about two and a half feet above the ground. These beams were mortised, roped, or nailed, or all three. Auger holes were bored at six-inch intervals though these beams, and sixty or seventy yards of rope were passed back aud forth, making a tight netting. This was filled up with small boughs and pine needles, and, covered with a blanket, it made a decidedly comfortable bed. The roofs were at first simply a mass of pine boughs to keep off the sun. When it was raining we stretched a sloping rubber blanket immediately under the ceiling. Unfortunately, after our beds were nicely fixed up, we received orders from brigade headquarters to air all bedding daily, if it wasn't raining, and to burn all bedding weekly. The order was meant to apply to the straw in the tents, but it was rather pedantically extended to the pine needle bedding of the shacks. By that time the small pine trees had all been cleared out, and it was against orders to cut trees. It wasn't so much fun sleeping on three ropes, but in that lazy climate you could sleep on a tight rope. After the real rain of June 20 we saw that what we had hitherto called rain was only a drizzle. Preferring possible fever to certain drowning, we immediately trenched the tents. Finding that we were rooted in Jacksonville, many men bought lumber, built dry-goods boxes on stilts, and lined them with tar paper and oil cloth. Those in the tents bought boards and laid floors. There were some new tents, eight by ten A wall, but by the...
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