. 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 . ing out those who were shirking military duty,or had deserted their colors, and to check any movement bythe negros. One could not go anywhere without a pass, asevery road was continually watched by men and hounds. Itwas the policy of our men, when escaping, to avoid roads asmuch as possible by traveling through the woods and fields. From what I saw of the hounds, and what I cou
. 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 . ing out those who were shirking military duty,or had deserted their colors, and to check any movement bythe negros. One could not go anywhere without a pass, asevery road was continually watched by men and hounds. Itwas the policy of our men, when escaping, to avoid roads asmuch as possible by traveling through the woods and fields. From what I saw of the hounds, and what I could learn fromothers, I believe that each pack was made up of two blood-hounds and from twenty-five to fifty other dogs. The blood-hounds were debased descendants of the stronof and fiercehounds imported from Cuba — many of them by the UnitedStates Government — for hunting Indians, during the Seminolewar. The other dogs were the mongrels that are found in 184 AITDKESONVILLB. such plentifulness abont every Southern house — increasing, asa rule, in numbers as the inhabitant of the house is lower downand poorer. They are like wolves, sneaking and cowardlywhen alone, fierce and bold when in packs. Each pack was. A MASTER OF THK 1IOIND3. inana<^ed by a well-armed man, who rode a mule, and carried,slun- over his shoulders by a cord, a cow horn, scraped verythin, with which he controlled the band by signals. What always puzzled me much was why the hounds tookonly Yankee trails, in the vicinity of the prison. There wasabout the Stockade from six thousand to ten thousand Eebelsand neoTOS, including guards, officers, servants, workmen, w^ere, of course, continually in motion and must havedaily made trails leading in every direction. It was the cus-tom of the Eebels to send a pack of hounds around the prisonevery morning, to examine if any Yankees had escaped duringthe nifht. It was believed that they rarely failed to find aprisoners tracks, and still more rarely ran off
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