. Andersonville. NATIONAL CEMETERY FROM AVENUE NORTH. J\stiniiiii\ Kt-pwrl ..f (Mldiicl n. j. (.liandlci- (_. S. A Main.—JO \ustcrilay—arc cartc(l (Hit ilail\- who ha\e ilicil fromuiikiKiwn cau>c .and wlioin tlic im-(lu-;il iifliccr> iK-xtr seen— arc liaulcil nul 1)\ tlic wa^ini load ami liuricil witliuutcoffins. X(j snap ni clothing ha\c c\cr hccn issued. Signed A. D. and I. G. C. S. NATIONAL CEMETERY FROM SOUTH SIDE. Testimony of James K. Davidson. .Tames K. TlavicLsou, 4tli Iowa Cavalry, was a lirisoner at .-\ii liHisdiiviJIc frdiii .March. ISiM. Many prisone
. Andersonville. NATIONAL CEMETERY FROM AVENUE NORTH. J\stiniiiii\ Kt-pwrl ..f (Mldiicl n. j. (.liandlci- (_. S. A Main.—JO \ustcrilay—arc cartc(l (Hit ilail\- who ha\e ilicil fromuiikiKiwn cau>c .and wlioin tlic im-(lu-;il iifliccr> iK-xtr seen— arc liaulcil nul 1)\ tlic wa^ini load ami liuricil witliuutcoffins. X(j snap ni clothing ha\c c\cr hccn issued. Signed A. D. and I. G. C. S. NATIONAL CEMETERY FROM SOUTH SIDE. Testimony of James K. Davidson. .Tames K. TlavicLsou, 4tli Iowa Cavalry, was a lirisoner at .-\ii liHisdiiviJIc frdiii .March. ISiM. Many prisoners died in the stockade. The hospital was then within the stockade; the dead men were carried on stretchersout to the gate, and from there they were hauled to the graveyard in wagons. Part of the time 1 was employed outside the stock-ade chopping wood, and part of the time driving a wagon froiu the hospital to the graveyard: I drove a wagon to the graveyarda little over a week, not two weeks, I think; there were two teams of us driving; we would each have from .)0 to 75 men perday; we would throw them in the wagon just as we would wood; sometimes there were 20 or at a load; we drove the samewagons back to the stockade loaded—sometimes with wood for the prisoners, sometimes with rations. We would go by wayof the depot sometimes and get rations in the same wagon which we carried dead bodies: those were t
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