. 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 . ee heah, old man, you must go off ; I cant hev ye talkin to these prisoners ; hits agin my awdahs, Go way now! The old fellow moved oU, but as he did he flung this Parthian arrow When Sherman gits down heah, hell find somethin differentfrom the httle snots of Reserves he ran over up about Milledge-ville ; hell find hes got to fight real soldiers. ^Ye could not help enjoying the
. 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 . ee heah, old man, you must go off ; I cant hev ye talkin to these prisoners ; hits agin my awdahs, Go way now! The old fellow moved oU, but as he did he flung this Parthian arrow When Sherman gits down heah, hell find somethin differentfrom the httle snots of Reserves he ran over up about Milledge-ville ; hell find hes got to fight real soldiers. ^Ye could not help enjoying the rage of the guards, over thelow estimate placed upon the fighting ability of themselves andcomrades, and as they raved around about what they would doif they were only given an opportunity to go into a line ofbattle against Sherman, we added fuel to the flames of theu-anger by confiding to each other that we always knew that A STOKY OF KEBEL MILITARY PlilSONS. 5ii little Brats whose highest ambition was to murder a defense-less prisoner, could be nothing else than cowards and skulkersin the field. Yaas — sonnies, said Charlie Burroughs, of the ThirdMichigan, in that nasal Tankee drawl, that he always assumed^. A EICE PLANTATION NEGEO. when he wanted to say anything very cutting; you—trundle — bed — soldiers — whove — never — seen — a — real — wild—Yankee — dont— know— how— different — they—are —from — the — kind — that — are — starved — down— to —tameness. Theyre — jest — as — different — as — a—lion—in — a — menagerie — is — from — his — brother — in — the —woods—who — has — a — nigger — every — day — for—din-,ner. You—fellows — will — go — into — a — circus—tent —»and — throw— tobacco — quids — in — the — face— of —ihOr 512 A^DEESOXYLLLE, — lion — in—the — cage — Tvhen — you — havent — spunk —enough — to — look — a — w
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