. On wheels and how I came there; a real story for real boys and girls, giving the personal experiences and observations of a fifteen-year-old Yankee boy as soldier and prisoner in the American civil war . retort I could make wasthat tliey would find out before a great while thatLincolns mule couhl kick the hardest. But this reply did not seem to be relished by myConfederate friend any more than I had relished liis])oetry, and I was summarily ordered to shut I did, for we had orders not to talk to theguards, and to do so was dangerous. However, theway w^e two boys, Johnnie and Yank, e
. On wheels and how I came there; a real story for real boys and girls, giving the personal experiences and observations of a fifteen-year-old Yankee boy as soldier and prisoner in the American civil war . retort I could make wasthat tliey would find out before a great while thatLincolns mule couhl kick the hardest. But this reply did not seem to be relished by myConfederate friend any more than I had relished liis])oetry, and I was summarily ordered to shut I did, for we had orders not to talk to theguards, and to do so was dangerous. However, theway w^e two boys, Johnnie and Yank, eyed eachother, like two sullen curs, gave evidence that wewere willing to settle our part of the war right thenand there. One night, about the first of December, a signalgun was fired fiom the fort, and the guards were allgotten under arms. What it meant we did not know,but afterward learned it was because Ivilpatrickscavalry, which Mns with Sherman on his march to thesea, was heading for Millcn, and was approaching alittle nearer than seemed safe. So, as they had runus from Andersonvillc to prevent Sherman from re-leasing us there, they were now going to hurry us outof Millen for the same ^^■^ CHAPTER to Blackshear Peison. tHE night was cold and dreary, and tlie rainwas coming down in torrents, when, about4 A. M., a Confederate sergeant entered the penand ordered us to get up and fall into line. We were soaked to the skin, and onr teeth werechattering when we got np in tlie dai-k and fumbledaround on tlie wet ground in search of our few be-longings. We then fell in line and wei-e marchedoutside, where we were told there had been some mis-understanding before about our exchange, but thatthis time our vessels, without any mistake, were atSavannah awaiting us. Though we were taken out so early it was fullynoon before the division I was in was packed intocattle cars as tightly as we had been in coming fromAndersonville. Then we started toward h
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