. 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 . ., and that gray-headed devil, Win-der, and the oldDutch Captain, stripem just as we were,put em in this pen,with just the rationsthey are givin us,and set a guard ofplantation niggersover em, with ordersto blow their wholeinfernal heads off, if they dared so much as to look at the deadline. Fi/rst Boy — (returning to the story of his capture.) OldHancock caught the Johnnies th
. 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 . ., and that gray-headed devil, Win-der, and the oldDutch Captain, stripem just as we were,put em in this pen,with just the rationsthey are givin us,and set a guard ofplantation niggersover em, with ordersto blow their wholeinfernal heads off, if they dared so much as to look at the deadline. Fi/rst Boy — (returning to the story of his capture.) OldHancock caught the Johnnies that morning the neatest youever saw anything in your hfe. After the two armies hadmurdered each other for four or five days in the Wilderness, byfighting so close together that much of the time you couldalmost shake hands with the Graybacks, both hauled off alittle, and lay and glowered at each other. Each side had lostabout twenty thousand men in learning that if it attacked theother it would get mashed fine. So each built a line of worksand lay behind them, and tried to nag the other into comingout and attacking. At Spottsylvania our lines and those of theJohnnies werent twelve hundred yards apart. The ground. DENOIL^rCING THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. ▲NDSBSONTILLS. was clear and clean between them, and any force tliatattempted to cross it to attack would be cut to pieces, as sureas anything. We laid there three or four days watching eachother — just like boys at school, who shake fists and ^dareeach other. At one place the Rebel line ran out towards uslike the top of a great letter *A. The night of the 11th of Mayit rained very hard, and then came a fog so thick that youcouldnt see the length of a company. Ilancock thought hedtake advantage of this. We were all turned out very quietlyabout four oclock in the morning. Not a bit of noise wasallowed. We even had to take off our canteens and tin cups,that they might not rattle against om* bayonets. The groundwas so wet that ou
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