. Andersonville : a story of Rebel military prisons, fifteen months a guest of the so-called southern confederacy : a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence . to make even moi^e pronounced the cus-tomary idleness that hung over the scene. The tugs activityseemed spasmodic and forced — a sort of protest against thegradually increasing lethargy that reigned upon the bosom ofthe waters — the gunboat floated along as if performing a per-functory^ duty, and the schooners sailed about as if tired ofremaining in one place. That little stret
. Andersonville : a story of Rebel military prisons, fifteen months a guest of the so-called southern confederacy : a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence . to make even moi^e pronounced the cus-tomary idleness that hung over the scene. The tugs activityseemed spasmodic and forced — a sort of protest against thegradually increasing lethargy that reigned upon the bosom ofthe waters — the gunboat floated along as if performing a per-functory^ duty, and the schooners sailed about as if tired ofremaining in one place. That little stretch of water was allthat was left for a cruising ground. Beyond Fort Darling theUnion gunboats lay, and the only vessel that passed the barrierwas the occasional flag-of-truce steamer. The basement of the building was occupied as a store-housefor the taxes-in-kind which the Confederate Government col-lected. On the first floor were about five hundred men. Onthe second floor — where I was — were about four hundred were principally from the First Division, First Corps —distinguished by a round red patch on their caps; First Division,Second Corps, marked by a red clover leaf; and the First Divi-. BABNACLE-BACKS DISCOTJEAGTNG A VISIT FEOM A 80LDIEE. sion. Third Corps, who wore a red diamond. They were mainlycaptured at Gettysburg and Mine Run. Besides these there was a A STOKY OF KEBEL MTLTTAIiY PRISONS. 85 considerable number from the Eighth Corps, captm-ed at Win-chester, and a large infusion of Cavalry—First, Second and ThirdWest Yirginia—taken in Averills desperate raid up the Yir-ginia Yalley, with the Wytheville Salt Works as an the third floor were about two hundred sailors and ma-rines, taken in the gallant but luckless assault upon the ruins ofFort Sumter, in the September previous. They retained thediscipline of the ship in their quarters, kept themselves trim andclean, and their floor as white as a ships deck. They did notcourt the soc
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