Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 6, 2025
They were quite an accession to the force of our N'Yaarkers, and helped much to establish the hoodlum reign which was shortly inaugurated over the whole prison. The Forty-Eighth New Yorkers who came in were a set of chaps so odd in every way as to be a source of never-failing interest.
They spoke it with a peculiar accent and intonation that made them instantly recognizable from the roughs of all other Cities. They called themselves "N'Yaarkers;" we came to know them as "Raiders."
It was only the very few who were able to do this. Nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand were, like myself, either wholly destitute of money and unable to get it from anybody else, or they paid out what money they had to the middlemen, in exorbitant prices for articles of food. The N'Yaarkers had still another method for getting food, money, blankets and clothing.
With each long, hot Summer hour the lice, the maggot-flies and the N'Yaarkers increased in numbers and venomous activity. They were ever-present annoyances and troubles; no time was free from them. The lice worried us by day and tormented us by night; the maggot-flies fouled our food, and laid in sores and wounds larvae that speedily became masses of wriggling worms.
One of the train-loads from Richmond was almost wholly made up of our old acquaintances the N'Yaarkers. The number of these had swelled to four hundred or five hundred all leagued together in the fellowship of crime.
They were quite an accession to the force of our N'Yaarkers, and helped much to establish the hoodlum reign which was shortly inaugurated over the whole prison. The Forty-Eighth New Yorkers who came in were a set of chaps so odd in every way as to be a source of never-failing interest.
About fifty of them were sitting in a group in one corner of the room, and near them a couple or three "N'Yaarkers." Suddenly one of the latter said with an oath: "I was robbed last night; I lost two silver watches, a couple of rings, and about fifty dollars in greenbacks. I believe some of you fellers went through me."
Their story was that one of the N'Yaarkers, who had become cognizant of our scheme, had sought to obtain favor in the Rebel eyes by betraying us. The Rebels stationed a squad at the crossing place, and as each man dropped down from the Stockade he was caught by the shoulder, the muzzle of a revolver thrust into his face, and an order to surrender whispered into his ear.
The N'Yaarkers were human vermin that preyed upon and harried us unceasingly. They formed themselves into bands numbering from five to twenty-five, each led by a bold, unscrupulous, energetic scoundrel.
After this the N'Yaarkers became bolder in their robberies, and more arrogant in their demeanor than ever, and we had the poor revenge upon those who would not assist us, of seeing a reign of terror inaugurated over the whole camp. The rations diminished perceptibly day by day.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking