. 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 . serveto illustrate hundreds of others. They had been taken outsideto do some work upon the cook-house that was being built. Aguard was sent with the three a little distance into the woodsto get a piece of timber. The boys sauntered along carelesslywith the guard, and managed to get pretty near him. As soonas they were fairly out of sight of the rest, the strongest ofthem — Tom
. 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 . serveto illustrate hundreds of others. They had been taken outsideto do some work upon the cook-house that was being built. Aguard was sent with the three a little distance into the woodsto get a piece of timber. The boys sauntered along carelesslywith the guard, and managed to get pretty near him. As soonas they were fairly out of sight of the rest, the strongest ofthem — Tom Wilhams — snatched the Rebels gun away from,him, and the other two springing upon him as swift as wildcats, throttled him, so that he could not give the alarm. Stillkeeping a hand on his throat, they led him off some distance,and tied him to a sapling with strings made by tearing up oneof their blouses. He was also securely gagged, and the boys, 182 ANDERSONVILLE. bidding him a hasty, but not specially tender, farewell, struckout, as they fondly hoped, for freedom. It was not long untilthey were missed, and the parties sent in search found and re-leased the guard, who gave all the information he possessed as. OVEIMOWERIXG A GUARD. to what had become of his charges. AU the packs of hounds,the squads of cavalry, and the foot patrols were sent out toscour the adjacent country. The Yankees kept in the swampsand creeks, and no trace of them was found that afternoon orevening. By this time they were ten or fifteen miles away,and thought that they could safely leave the creeks for betterwalldng on the solid ground. They had gone but a few miles,when the pack of hounds Captain Wirz was with took theirtrail, and came after them in full cry. The boys tried to run,but, exhausted as they were, they could make no of them were soon caught, but Tom Williams, who wasso desperate that he preferred death to recapture, jumped intoa mill-pond near by. When he came up, it was in a l
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