Andersonville diary; escape, and list of dead, with name, company, regiment, date of death and number of grave in cemetery . ached Pulaski. All that saved us wasthat the pickets had fires lighted and were looking at them, and ouroars and oarlocks being muffled, they did not hear or see us. It wasvery dark when we struck the mouth of the Savannah, and where-abouts Fort Pulaski lay v/e knew not; but we kept pulling until halt- A DARING ESCAPE. 171 ed by a soldier of the 144th N. Y. Infantry, who was guarding theplace at that time. We were ordered to pull in, which we did, andwere taken up to the
Andersonville diary; escape, and list of dead, with name, company, regiment, date of death and number of grave in cemetery . ached Pulaski. All that saved us wasthat the pickets had fires lighted and were looking at them, and ouroars and oarlocks being muffled, they did not hear or see us. It wasvery dark when we struck the mouth of the Savannah, and where-abouts Fort Pulaski lay v/e knew not; but we kept pulling until halt- A DARING ESCAPE. 171 ed by a soldier of the 144th N. Y. Infantry, who was guarding theplace at that time. We were ordered to pull in, which we did, andwere taken up to the commanding officer and questioned. He saidit was the most daring escape ever made, up to that time, consideringthe obstacles we had to encounter. We were kept in the guardhouse until my statement was confirmed by the war department,when I was released and sent to Vvashington, where I reported to theAdjutant-General who gave me a furlough and sent me to the hospi-tal. I remained there until spring, when I rejoined my regiment andwas mustered out at the close of the war. ***** I remain. Your true friend, MICHAEL REBEL TESTIMONY. We cannot do better than copy into this book a very completedescription of Andersonville Prison, by Joseph Jones, Surgeon P. A. C. S., Professor of Medical Chemistry in the Medical College ofGeorgia, at Augusta, Ga., as given at the Wirtz trial at Washington, D. C, he being a witness for the prosecution: Hearing of the unusual mortality among the prisoners confinedat Andersonville, in the month of August, 1864, during a visit toRichmond, I expressed to the Surgeon General, S. P. Moore, Con-federate States of America, a desire to visit Camp Sumpter, with thedesign of instituting a series of inquiries upon the nature and causesof the prevailing diseases. Small-pox had appeared among the pris-oners, and I believed that this would prove an admirable field for thestudy of its characteristic lesions. The condition of Peyers glandsin this disease was c
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