. 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 . ext to Texas, is the largest State in theSouth, and has nearly twenty-five per cent, more area than thegreat State of Kew York, is divided into two distinct andwidely differing sections, by a geological line extending directlyacross the State from Augusta, on the Savannah Eiver, throughMacon, on the Ocmulgee, to Columbus, on the part lying to the north and we
. 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 . ext to Texas, is the largest State in theSouth, and has nearly twenty-five per cent, more area than thegreat State of Kew York, is divided into two distinct andwidely differing sections, by a geological line extending directlyacross the State from Augusta, on the Savannah Eiver, throughMacon, on the Ocmulgee, to Columbus, on the part lying to the north and west of this line is usuallyspoken of as Upper Georgia; while that lying to the southand east, extending to the Atlantic Ocean and the Florida line,is called Lower Georgia. In this part of the State — thoughfar removed from each other — were the prisons of Anderson-ville. Savannah, Millen and Blackshear, in which we were incar-cerated one after the other. Upper Georgia — the capital of which is Atlanta — is a fruit-ful, productive, metalliferous region, that will in time becomequite w^ealthy. Lower Georgia, which has an extent aboutequal to that of Indiana, is not only poorer now than a wqrn- L„: LOEN Fi. A 6T0BT OF EEBEL MILITAIIY PEISONS. 125 out province of Asia Minor, but in all probability mil everremain so. It is a starved, sterile land, impressing one as a desert in thefirst stages of reclamation into productive soil, or a productivesoil in the last steps of deterioration into a desert. It is avast expanse of arid, yeUow sand, broken at intervals by foulswamps, with a jungle-like growth of unwholesome vegetation,and teeming with venomous snakes, and all manner of hideouscrawhng things. The original forest still stands almost unbroken on this widestretch of thirty thousand square miles, but it does not cover itas we say of forests in more favored lands. The taU, solemnpines, upright and symmetrical as huge masts, and wholly des-titute of limbs, except the little,
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