. 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 . nightafter night — without a shot. In the meanwhile another happy thought slowly gestated inDaviss alleged intellect. How he came to give birth to twoideas with no more than a week between them, puzzled all whoknew him, and still more that he survived this extraordinaxj A STORY OF KEBEL MILITAEY PRISONS. 411 strain upon the gray matter of the cerebrum. His new ideawas to have d
. 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 . nightafter night — without a shot. In the meanwhile another happy thought slowly gestated inDaviss alleged intellect. How he came to give birth to twoideas with no more than a week between them, puzzled all whoknew him, and still more that he survived this extraordinaxj A STORY OF KEBEL MILITAEY PRISONS. 411 strain upon the gray matter of the cerebrum. His new ideawas to have driven a heavily-laden mule cart around the insideof the Dead Line at least once a day. The wheels or the mulesfeet broke through the thin sod covering the tunnels andexposed them. Our tunnel went with the rest, and those ofour crowd who wore shoes had humiliation added to sorrow bybeing compelled to go in and spade the hole full of dirt. Thisput an end to subterranean engineering. One day one of the boys watched his opportunity, got underthe ration wagon, and clinging close to the coupling pole withhands and feet, was carried outside. He was detected, however,as he came from under the wagon, and brought THEY STOOD AROUND THE GATE AND YELLED DERISIVELY. CHAPTER LIII. FRANK ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE PASSINO OFF AS A KEJiEL liOV HE REACHES GRISWOLDVILLE BY RAIL, AND THENSTRIKES ACROSS THE COUNTRY FOR SHERMAN, BUT IS OAUGPITWITHIN nVENTY MILLS OF OUR LINES. One ol the shrewdest and nearest successful attempts toescape that came under my notice was that of mj friend Ser-
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