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The accounts of young Union prisoners at Confederate prison camps are especially harrowing. Sixteen-year-old Michael Dougherty was shocked by the sight of “different instruments of torture: stocks, thumb screws, barbed iron collars, shackles, ball and chain. Our prison keepers seemed to handle them with familiarity.” William Smith, a fifteen-year-old soldier in the 14th Illinois Infantry, was shaken by the physical appearance of prisoners at Andersonville in Georgia, a “great mass of gaunt, unnatural-looking beings, soot-begrimes, and clad in filthy trousers.
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The occupation of crossing sweeper received perhaps its most famous literary treatment in Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House with the character of Jo, a homeless boy who "fights it out at his crossing among the mud and wheels, the horses, whips, and umbrellas, and gets but a scanty sum..." Jo has been characterized as "one of the most significant figures" in the novel and as a way for Dickens to address juvenile vagrancy, which was seen as a serious social problem at the time. Dickens described Jo as: > not a genuine foreign-grown savage; he is the ordinary home-made article. > Dirty, ugly, disagreeable to all the senses, in body a common creature of > the common streets, only in soul a heathen. Homely filth begrimes him, > homely parasites devour him, homely sores are in him, homely rags are on > him; native ignorance, the growth of English soil and climate, sinks his > immortal nature lower than the beasts that perish.
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