. 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 . pair of slip-pers, and a hospi-tal gown, and mo-tioned him to goon into the largeroom, and arrayhimself in his newgarments. Likeeverything elseabout the Hospitalthis performancewas reduced to aperfect a word wasspoken by any-body, not a mo-ments time lost, and it seemed to me that it was not ten minutesafter I marched up on the balcony, covered with dirt, rags, ver-m
. 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 . pair of slip-pers, and a hospi-tal gown, and mo-tioned him to goon into the largeroom, and arrayhimself in his newgarments. Likeeverything elseabout the Hospitalthis performancewas reduced to aperfect a word wasspoken by any-body, not a mo-ments time lost, and it seemed to me that it was not ten minutesafter I marched up on the balcony, covered with dirt, rags, ver-min, and a matted shock of hair, until I marched out of theroom, clean and well clothed. Now I began to feel as if I wasreally a man again. The next thing done was to register our names, rank, regi-ment, when and where captured, when and where released, this we were shown to our rooms. And such rooms asthey were. All the old maids in the country could not haveimproved their spick-span neatness. The floors were as whiteas pine plank could be scoured ; the sheets and bedding as cleanas cotton and linen and woolen could be washed. Nothing in anyhome in the land was any more daintily, wholesomely, unquali-. THEY REMOVED EVERY TRACE OF PRISON GRIME. A STOKT OF PwEBEL IHLITART PRISONS. 625 fiedly clean than were these little chambers, each containingtwo beds, one for each man assiojned to iheir occupancy. Andrews doubted if we could stand all this radical change inour habits. He feared that it was rushinof things too fast. Wemight have had our hair cut one week, and taken a bath allover a week later, and so progress down to sleeping betweenwhite sheets m the course of six months, but to do it all in oneday seemed like tempting fate. Every turn showed us some new feature of the marvelousorder of this wonderful institution. Shortly after we were sentto our rooms, a Surgeon entered with a Clerk. After answeringthe usual questions as to name, rank, company and regiment,the Surge
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