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[Kania H. <fro...@fs...>]

 strategy to secure more room. About thirty of us got into a tight box
car, and immediately announced that it was too full to admit any more.
When an officer came along with another squad to stow away, we would
yell out to him to take some of the men out, as we were crowded
unbearably. In the mean time everybody in the car would pack closely
around the door, so as to give the impression that the car was densely
crowded. The Rebel would look convinced, and demand: "Why, how many men
have you got in de cah?" Then one of us would order the imaginary host
in the invisible recesses to-- "Stand still there, and be counted,"
while he would gravely count up to one hundred or one hundred and
twenty, which was the utmost limit of the car, and the Rebel would hurry
off to put his prisoners somewhere else. We managed to play this
successfully during the who