. Prisoners of war and military prisons; personal narratives of experience in the prisons at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Charleston, and Columbia ... with a list of officers who were prisoners of war from January 1, 1864 . cked,and were disporting them-selves in their bare pedal extremities andthe army brogan did notseem to be exactly naturalafiinitieg. Their union pro-duced a most uncomfortablechafing of protuberances, sothat, while the colored brother cherished his shoe leatherand sufiered the pains of martyrdom with it upon showoccasions, he much p
. Prisoners of war and military prisons; personal narratives of experience in the prisons at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Charleston, and Columbia ... with a list of officers who were prisoners of war from January 1, 1864 . cked,and were disporting them-selves in their bare pedal extremities andthe army brogan did notseem to be exactly naturalafiinitieg. Their union pro-duced a most uncomfortablechafing of protuberances, sothat, while the colored brother cherished his shoe leatherand sufiered the pains of martyrdom with it upon showoccasions, he much preferred to carry it upon his backduring the steady plodding of a campaign. To judgefrom expressions, these fellows meant business. Wharis de enemy; has you all saw him anywhar? ^ We deswant to kotch dem Johnny Rebs once; we make em hol-ler, suah. Dey is done clean gone, and we cant findem. Guess dey hyar we was a comin. Yah ! yah!yah I Were gwine fer to git em yit. Wliy cantyou all headem off wiv your boss critters, and den we mashem all to pieces. A compliance with the last suggestionwas promised, to their evident delight, and they were leftin the rear. The poor fellows found the Johnny Rebsmany times, often to their sorrow, before the campaign. Prisoners of War. 5 was over; and upon some occasions, too, they found thatthey turned up when they were not being hunted for. A halt was made in the evening near the slope of thehigh plateau overlooking the Wilderness, not a great dis-tance in advance of General Grants head-quarters. At 2oclock on the morning of the 6th, we were again in thesaddle and pressing toward the front b} way of the Fur-nace road. In the descent from the upper level, a scenelong to he remembered was presented to the had been lighted up by the sides of the roads, whichrevealed by their glare long lines of cavalry, infantry, andartillery, filling up the tortuous ways in all directions, inwavy motion, like the undulations of some vast a
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