. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . *3. CLOSE TO THE DEAD-LINE AT AXDERSOXVILLE The officers in charge of this prison lived in constant dread of an uprising among the prisoners. At onetime less than twenty-three hundred effectives, almost all of them raw militia and generally inefficient,were guarding thirty-two thousand prisoners. The order to shoot without hesitation any prisoner crossingthe dead-line, which was maintained in all stockade prisons North and South, was a matter of vitalnecessity here when the prisoners so far outnumbered the guards. This condition of
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . *3. CLOSE TO THE DEAD-LINE AT AXDERSOXVILLE The officers in charge of this prison lived in constant dread of an uprising among the prisoners. At onetime less than twenty-three hundred effectives, almost all of them raw militia and generally inefficient,were guarding thirty-two thousand prisoners. The order to shoot without hesitation any prisoner crossingthe dead-line, which was maintained in all stockade prisons North and South, was a matter of vitalnecessity here when the prisoners so far outnumbered the guards. This condition of affairs is what gaverise to the famous order of General J. H. Winder for the battery of artillery on duty at Andersonville toopen on the stockade should notice be received that any approaching Federal forces from Shermansarmy were within seven miles.
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