Project Gutenberg 2013-06-22 Public domain in the USA. 187 Anonymous Anonyme Anonymous, Anonymous Opium Eating: An Autobiographical Sketch by an Habituate E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://archive.org) "Opium Eating: An Autobiographical Sketch by an Habituate" is a personal narrative written in the late 19th century. The book details the author's harrowing experiences as a soldier taken prisoner during the American Civil War, followed by an exploration of his struggles with opium addiction. It delves into the psychological and physical toll that both warfare and addiction impose, ultimately painting a grim picture of suffering and the search for solace. The opening of the autobiographical sketch introduces the author's youthful enlistment in the army, where he serves as a drummer and participates in significant battles, leading to his capture. He vividly recounts the brutal conditions faced by prisoners, especially the scant rations that lead to starvation, and the despair of incarceration in infamous prisons like Richmond and Andersonville. Alongside these reflections, the text hints at the author's descent into opium dependency, suggesting that his fight against hunger and hopelessness ultimately leads to a longer struggle with addiction, making it evident that the narrative will explore the intertwined themes of war, suffering, and the desperate escape found in drugs. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/43012/43012-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 66.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons Opium abuse -- United States RC Text Browsing: Drugs/Alcohol/Pharmacology Browsing: Health & Medicine Browsing: History - American Category: Biographies Category: History - American Category: History - Warfare Category: Drugs/Alcohol/Pharmacology 254157 2025-06-17T11:28:44.982033 text/html 254238 2013-06-22T12:03:41 text/html 133637 2025-06-17T11:28:49.460048 application/epub+zip 135547 2025-06-17T11:28:45.775018 application/epub+zip 128537 2025-06-17T11:28:45.416038 application/epub+zip 220058 2025-06-17T11:28:52.580036 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 191459 2025-06-17T11:28:49.080994 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 185093 2022-09-19T15:55:52.036857 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 224939 2023-09-18T14:36:00.964653 text/plain 16156 2025-06-17T11:28:53.322970 application/rdf+xml 9894 2025-06-17T11:28:45.501000 image/jpeg 1621 2025-06-17T11:28:45.457016 image/jpeg 121080 2025-06-17T11:28:45.014082 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog More titles under Unknown en.wikipedia