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, (14760485794)

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Title: 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
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: McElroy, John, 1846-1929
Subjects: Andersonville Prison United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: Toledo : D. R. Locke
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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MILLEN. CHAPTEE LIX. OUR NEW QUARTERS AT CAMP LAWTON — BUTLDTNG A HUT AJX EXCEPTIONAL COMMANDANT HE IS A fJtOOB MAN, BUT WILL TAKE BRIBES RATIONS. In the morning we took a survey of our new quarters, andfound that we were in a Stockade resembling very much inconstruction and dimensions that at Andersonville. The princi-pal difference was that the upright logs were in their roughstate, whereas they were hewed at Anderson ville, and the brookrunning through the camp was not bordered by a swamp, buthad clean, firm banks. Our next move was to make the best of the situation. Wewere divided into hundreds, each commanded by a Sergeant.Ten hundreds constituted a division, the head of which wasalso a Sergeant. I was elected by my comrades to the Ser-geantcy of the Second Hundred of the First Division. As soonas we were assigned to our ground, we began constructingshelter. For the first and only time in my prison experience,we found a full supply of material for this purpose, and the usewe ma