. Young folk's history of the war for the union . und, and had sentry-boxes along the topsfor the convenience of the guards; but no shelter whatever wasprovided for the poor prisoners, who had been obliged to bur-row holes in the ground to protect themselves from sun, rain,and frost. A little way from the palisade, inside, was a rail 488 MARCH TO THE SEA. [1864. fence, beyond which no one was allowed to pass. It was calledthe dead line, for the guards were ordered to shoot downany prisoner who went beyond it. Part of Shermans troops passed, on the great march, withinsixty or seventy miles of A
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . und, and had sentry-boxes along the topsfor the convenience of the guards; but no shelter whatever wasprovided for the poor prisoners, who had been obliged to bur-row holes in the ground to protect themselves from sun, rain,and frost. A little way from the palisade, inside, was a rail 488 MARCH TO THE SEA. [1864. fence, beyond which no one was allowed to pass. It was calledthe dead line, for the guards were ordered to shoot downany prisoner who went beyond it. Part of Shermans troops passed, on the great march, withinsixty or seventy miles of Andersonville, the site of a stilllarger prison pen than the one at Millen, and far more noto-rious in the history of the war. It was built in the samemanner, but covered many acres of ground, and was surroundedby earthworks mounted with cannon, to aid in quelling anyattempt of the captives to escape. The first prisoners wereput in it in February, 1864, and between that time and April,1865, nearly fifty thousand men were sent there from all parts.
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