. 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 . hape of stupid, open-eyed, open-mouthedwonder, something akin to the look on the face of the rusticlout, gazing for the first time upon a locomotive or a steamthreshing machine. But if chance threw one of them near us whenbe thought himself unobserved by the Rebels, the blank, vacantface lighted up with an entirely different expression. He was nolonger the credulous yokel who b
. 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 . hape of stupid, open-eyed, open-mouthedwonder, something akin to the look on the face of the rusticlout, gazing for the first time upon a locomotive or a steamthreshing machine. But if chance threw one of them near us whenbe thought himself unobserved by the Rebels, the blank, vacantface lighted up with an entirely different expression. He was nolonger the credulous yokel who believed the Yankees were onlyslightly modified devils, ready at any instant to return to theiroriginal horn-and-tail condition and snatch him away to thebluest kind of perdition; he knew, apparently quite as well ashis master, that they were in some way his friends and allies,and he lost no opportunity in communicating his appreciationof that fact, and of offering his services in any possible these offers were sincere. It is the testimony of every A STOKY OF KEBEL MILITARY PRISONS. 135 Union prisoner in the South that he was never betrayed by ordisappointed in a field negro, but could always approach any. A FIELD HAND. one of them with perfect confidence in his extending all the aidin his power, whether as a guide to escape, as sentinel to signaldanger, or a purveyor of food. These services were frequentlyattended with the greatest personal risk, but they were nonethe less readily undertaken. This applies only to the field-hands; the house servants were treacherous and wholly un-reliable. Yery many of our men who managed to get awayfrom the prisons were recaptured through their betrayal byhouse servants, but none were retaken where a field hand couldprevent it. We were much interested in watching the negro workThey wove in a great deal of their peculiar, wild, mournfulmusic, whenever the character of the labor permitted. Theyseemed to sing the music for the musics sake
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