. 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 . ted as executionersof those desperados. It seemed that you were all fearful thatwe might, after what had been done, be assassinated if weremained in the Stockade; and that we might be overpowered?perhaps, by the friends of the Eaiders we had hanged, at atime possibly, when you would not be on hand to give usassistance, and thus lose our lives for rendering the help wedid in get
. 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 . ted as executionersof those desperados. It seemed that you were all fearful thatwe might, after what had been done, be assassinated if weremained in the Stockade; and that we might be overpowered?perhaps, by the friends of the Eaiders we had hanged, at atime possibly, when you would not be on hand to give usassistance, and thus lose our lives for rendering the help wedid in getting rid of the worst pestilence we had to contendwith. On obtaining my parole I was very careful to have it soarranged and mutually understood, between Wirz and myself,that at any time that my squad (meaning the survivors of mycomrades, with whom I was originally captured) was sent away 472 AlfDEKSOiJVlLLB. from Anderson ville, either to be exchanged or to go to anotherprison, that I should be allowed to go with them. This wasagreed to, and so written in my parole which I carried until itabsolutely wore out. I took a position in the cook-house, andthe other boys either went to work there, or at the hospital oy-. BEKQEAin L. L. KEY, grave-yard as occasion required. I worked here, and did th^best I could for the many starving wretches inside, in the wa/of preparing their food, until the eighth day of September, atwhich time, if you remember, quite a train load of men wereremoved, as many of us thought, for the purpose of exchange;but, as we afterwards discovered, to be taken to another the crowd so removed was my squad, or, at lea^.t, a por-tion of them, being my intimate mess-mates while in the Stock-ade. As soon as I found this to be the case I waited on Wimat his office, and asked permission to go with them, which hd A 8T0RY OF liEBEL MILITARY PRISONS. 473 refused, stating that he was compelled to have men at the cook-house to cook for those in the Stockade until
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