. 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 . o the field. Winder was the illustrious head of this crowdof bomb-proof Rebels from Maryland, My Maryland I whoseenthusiasm for the Southern cause and consistency in serving itonly in such places as were out of range of the Yankee artillery,was the subject of many bitter jibes by IheEebels — especiallyby those whose secure berths they possessed themselves of. Lieutenant Davis w
. 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 . o the field. Winder was the illustrious head of this crowdof bomb-proof Rebels from Maryland, My Maryland I whoseenthusiasm for the Southern cause and consistency in serving itonly in such places as were out of range of the Yankee artillery,was the subject of many bitter jibes by IheEebels — especiallyby those whose secure berths they possessed themselves of. Lieutenant Davis went into the war with great was one of the mob which attacked the Sixth Massachusettsin its passage through Baltimore, but, like aU of that class ofrouglis, he got his stomach full of war as soon as the real busi-ness of fighting began, and he retired to where the chances ofattaining a ripe old age were better than in front of the Armyof the Potomacs muskets. We shall hear of Davis again. Encountering Captain Wirz was one of the terrors of anabortive attempt to escape. When recaptuixid prisoners werebrought before him he would frequently give way to paroxysms A 6TOEY OF REBEL MILITARY PRISONS. 375. of screaming rage, so violent as to closely verge on insanity. Brandlsliing the fearful and wonderful revolver — of which I have spoken—in such a man-ner as to threat-en the lucklesscaptives with in-stant death, hewould sliriekout impreca-tions, curses,and foul epi-thets in French,German and En-glish, until hefairly frothed atthe were HE SHRIEKED IMPRECATIONS AND CURSES. plenty of StoriCg current in camp of his having several times given away tohis rage so far as to actually shoot men down in these inter-views, and still more of his knocking boys down and jumpingupon them, until he inflicted injuries that soon resulted in true these rumors were I am unable to say of my^ ownpersonal knowledge, since I never saw him kill any one, norhave I talke
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