Excerpt from Nine Months in Rebel Prisons The Rebs took us two or three miles south of their army where we met about one thousand prisoners. We now numbered about two thousand men and several officers. The officers were here taken away and the private soldiers were marched thirty or forty miles to a place called Danville, Va. At Danville the Rebs took our gum blankets, knives and money; some of the men hid their knives and. Money so that the Rebs could not find them. I had a large buckhorn penknife which they did not get and twenty cents in money which they did not take; they would not take less than a dollar. We received from the Rebs nine hardtacks or bread and one pound of bacon or meat. This they said would last us three days. We were now put in box cars and started South. The Rebs said we will now Show you Yanks how large our country It was now the seventeenth day Of May, 1864. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.