. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . the subjects OIK K1HKMKN. 483 with (.! Prussia, although my papers came from their government. 1 ir1 alonremarkably well until 1 staick Andersonville. One (lav 1 went in thena Colonel Iyfevre of South Carolina, who at that time, I believe, was in fullcharge of t he prison. I wasnt five minutes in the stockade until some of theold boys got on to me, and begun shouting as well as they could. Hey, Posty,got you, have they ? Youll have a jolly time, old man. I couldnt, you know,reco
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . the subjects OIK K1HKMKN. 483 with (.! Prussia, although my papers came from their government. 1 ir1 alonremarkably well until 1 staick Andersonville. One (lav 1 went in thena Colonel Iyfevre of South Carolina, who at that time, I believe, was in fullcharge of t he prison. I wasnt five minutes in the stockade until some of theold boys got on to me, and begun shouting as well as they could. Hey, Posty,got you, have they ? Youll have a jolly time, old man. I couldnt, you know,recognize one of them. It would have been all up with me if my role badbeen discovered. Did I want to speak to them!- You bet your sweet life 1jtlid. Of course my report was a verbal one. I remember well when it wasgiven in. Seward and Stanton sat together and heard it all. I began at thebeginning, and gave it all to them in my own way. They listened. Finally,when it came to the toughest part—Andersonville—old Seward got up quiteexcited and put Ins fist on the table we sat at, mad as a hornet. He hadnt. m BOKST RECOONIZED BY PRISONERSIN ANDERSONVILLE. STANTON SAID :WE MUST RETALIATE. got seated until Stanton was on his feet, and pounding the table (Ill alwaysremember those words), shouted,We must-we MUST—retaliate ! Sewardjumped up, and said, No, no, NO —just like a fire alarm bell—we mustntlet it go out to the world ! It would never do. Now Ill just say this, although1 m not much on history, that was a big scene in the big affairs of a bigcountry. Jamks F. \\ exman comes of a good old fire stock, and can be said to havebeen born a tireman, his father, Uzziah Wenman, being at the time of hisbirth (March 7. 1S24) an assistant engineer, and living at that time in FultonStreet* just below Church. Mr. Wenman received his first ideas of the FireDepartment in the house of Franklin Engine Company 39 (his fathers oldcompany), then located on the corner of Vesey and Church Streets
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