. On wheels and how I came there; . retort I c<nild make wasthat they would find out before a great while thatLincolns mule could kick the hardest. But this reply did not seem to be relished by myConfederate friend any more than I had relished hispoetry, 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 we 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 signalg
. On wheels and how I came there; . retort I c<nild make wasthat they would find out before a great while thatLincolns mule could kick the hardest. But this reply did not seem to be relished by myConfederate friend any more than I had relished hispoetry, 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 we 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 KII pat rickscavalry, which was with Sherman on his march to thesen, was heading for Millcn, and was approaching alittle nearer than seemed safe. So, as they had runus from Andersonville to prevent Sherman from re-leasing us there, they were now going to hurry us outof Millen for the same iMt-^^r- CHAPTER XXVI. TwEMOVAL TO BlACKSIIEAR PeISON. fHE iiiglit was cold and dreary, and tlie ,^. was coining down in torrents, when, about4 A. M., a Confederate sergeant entered the penand ordered ns to get up and fall into line. We were soaked to the skin, and onr teeth werechattering when we got np in the dark and fumbledaround on the wet ground in search of our few be-longings. We then fell in line and were 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 Ave 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 had rained during the entire morning while wewere waiting, yet we had no shelter and no lire bywhich to dry or warm ourselves, and as the tall pinetrees were ma
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