. "Prison life in Andersonville" . Ground Plan of Andersonville Stockade. Description: Fig. 1, Keepers House; 2. P. Spring; 3, NatlMonument; 4, Purchased Property; 5, Stockade; 6, Outer Stockade7, Deadline; 8, Forts and Batteries; 9, Main Fort; 10, *Gallows11, Magazine; 12, Capt. Wirtz Headquarters; 13, To Cemetery14, Wells and Tunnels; 15, Dead House; 16, Guard Camp; 17, Roadto Station; 18. Creek; 19, North Gate; 20. South Gate; 21. FlagPole. *Toward the close of the war great bounties were paid for re-cruits in northern cities. Many desperate characters enlisted forthis money, intending to d
. "Prison life in Andersonville" . Ground Plan of Andersonville Stockade. Description: Fig. 1, Keepers House; 2. P. Spring; 3, NatlMonument; 4, Purchased Property; 5, Stockade; 6, Outer Stockade7, Deadline; 8, Forts and Batteries; 9, Main Fort; 10, *Gallows11, Magazine; 12, Capt. Wirtz Headquarters; 13, To Cemetery14, Wells and Tunnels; 15, Dead House; 16, Guard Camp; 17, Roadto Station; 18. Creek; 19, North Gate; 20. South Gate; 21. FlagPole. *Toward the close of the war great bounties were paid for re-cruits in northern cities. Many desperate characters enlisted forthis money, intending to desert at the first opportunity. The vigi-lence of Genl. Grant forced them into battle. Many were capturedand landed in Andersonville. Here they conspired to rob and mur-der fellow prisoners. Capt. Wirtz convened a trial court composedof iirisoncTs who olisiTvcd ;ill tin; forms of in tlu- trial of tlu-sidesperadoes. Six of them were found guilty of murder and CHAPTER II. AN INSIDE VIEW OF A CONFEDERATE PRISON. At the time of our incarceration inAndersonville, the crisis of the war ofthe rebellion was reached. GeneralGrant was fighting the great battles ofthe Wilderness in Virginia; the invest-ment of Petersburg was about to begin,and General Lee was resisting the im-pact of the Federal forces with unsur-passed skill and heroism. GeneralSherman was also hastening his prepa-rations to penetrate the vitals of theConfederacv by his famous ^March tothe Sea. Skirmishes by the contending forceswere of dailv occurrence, and frequent-Iv battles were fought that now loomlarge in historv. To bury the dead wasnot difficult; but the care of the wound-ed was a grave concern to both affair of still greater magnitude wasthe gathering up of the captured officers 27 2S Prison Life in Andersonville and soldiers, the transporting of themhundreds of miles, and the placing ofthem in prisons for safe keeping. The Confederate authorities adopteda simple
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