. 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 . ious labor, an embankment overa mile in length, twenty-five feet thick and twenty feet two-thirds of this bank faced the sea; the other thirdran across the spit of land to protect the fort against an attackfrom the land side. Still stronger than the bank forming the front of the fortwere the travei*ses,which preventedan enfilading fire-These were regularhills, twenty
. 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 . ious labor, an embankment overa mile in length, twenty-five feet thick and twenty feet two-thirds of this bank faced the sea; the other thirdran across the spit of land to protect the fort against an attackfrom the land side. Still stronger than the bank forming the front of the fortwere the travei*ses,which preventedan enfilading fire-These were regularhills, twenty-five toforty feet high, andbroad and long inproportion. Therewere fifteen o rtwenty of themalong the face ofthe fort. Inside ofthem were capac-ious bomb proofs,sufficiently large toshelter the wholegarrison. It seemed THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUND AHMSTEONG. aS if a whole ToWH- (FRon A PHOTOGRAPH.) g]^p j^ad bccn dug up, carted down there and set on edge. In front of the workswas a strong palisade. Between each pair of traverses were oneor two enormous guns, none less than one-hundred-and-fifty-pounders. Among these we saw a great Armstrong gun, whichhad been presented to the Southern Confederacy by its manu-. 616 ANDERSON VILLE. facturer, Sir William Armstrong, who, like the majority of the \English nobility, was a warm admirer of the Jeff. Davis crowd. ]It Avas the finest piece of ordnance ever seen in this carriage was rosewood, and the mountings gilt brass. Thebreech of the gun had five reinforcements. To attack this place our Government assembled the mostpowerful fleet ever sent on such an expedition. Over seventy-five men-of-war, including six monitors, and carrying sixhundred guns, assailed it with a storm of shot and shell thataveraged four projectiles per second for several hours; theparapet was battered, and the large guns crushed as onesmashes a bottle with a stone. The garrison fled into thebomb-proofs for protection. The troops, who had landed abovet
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