The soldier's story of his captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and other Rebel prisons . VIEWOFTHE MANNER IN WHICH THE DEAD WERE INTERRED. Taken from a Rebel Photograph. The bodies were laid in rows of one hun-dred to three hundred, and after the earth was thrown over them, a stakewas thrust down to mark the place of burial. Page Which was a one-story shed, built of rough boards, one hundred feet in length,and less than fifty in width; it contained in the interior two medium-sizedranges, and four boilers of fifty gallons capacity each. HORRORS OF THE PRISON. 145 second, enlisted pris
The soldier's story of his captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and other Rebel prisons . VIEWOFTHE MANNER IN WHICH THE DEAD WERE INTERRED. Taken from a Rebel Photograph. The bodies were laid in rows of one hun-dred to three hundred, and after the earth was thrown over them, a stakewas thrust down to mark the place of burial. Page Which was a one-story shed, built of rough boards, one hundred feet in length,and less than fifty in width; it contained in the interior two medium-sizedranges, and four boilers of fifty gallons capacity each. HORRORS OF THE PRISON. 145 second, enlisted prison convicts; third, men who dugtunnels for the purpose of discovering them to the reb-els, gaining thereby an extra ration; fourth, spies sentin by the authorities. Inside the stockade, near the gate, was often thescene of wildest horror. Here would be gathered to-gether in the morning, waiting to pass out the gate tobooths where medicines were distributed, the sick, creep-ing, often, upon then hands and knees, and those toosick to creep borne by feeble, staggering , also, would be gathered the stretcher-bearers withtheir burdens of dead; all waiting, in a densely-packedthrong of thousands, often in the rain, or sultry tropicalsun, where not a breath of air stirred to revive the faint-ing. It was a rule, that no one,
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