The soldier's story of his captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and other Rebel prisons . rdinaryconstruction. As I have elsewhere instanced in thesepages, sometimes men feigned to be dead, and werecarried out by their comrades, each of the parties de-riving advantage by the operation. Another sharppractice was, for four to carry out a dead man and onlytwo return with the stretcher, which gave two a chancefor escape and wood to the remaining; thus conferringmutual benefits. Nothing of this kind could be of lono-duration in practice, for by some method the Johnniessoon became posted in all o
The soldier's story of his captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and other Rebel prisons . rdinaryconstruction. As I have elsewhere instanced in thesepages, sometimes men feigned to be dead, and werecarried out by their comrades, each of the parties de-riving advantage by the operation. Another sharppractice was, for four to carry out a dead man and onlytwo return with the stretcher, which gave two a chancefor escape and wood to the remaining; thus conferringmutual benefits. Nothing of this kind could be of lono-duration in practice, for by some method the Johnniessoon became posted in all our dodges. It was said, Iknow not with how much truth, every batch of prison-ers sent into the pen were accompanied by a spy inU. S. blue, whom the others naturally trusted as a com-rade. He found out all the secrets of the squad andreported them to Wirz. This, doubtless, will accountfor much seeming treachery among our own. men. Itdoes not seem possible that any amount of misery couldinduce comrades to betray one another, even for class traitors as follows: First, bounty jumpers;. VIEWOFTHE MANNER IN WHICH THE DEAD WERE INTERRED. Taken from a Rebel Photograph. The bodies were laid in rows of one hun-dred to three hundred, and after the earth was thrown over them, a stakewas thrust down to mark the place of burial. Page 144.
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