Identifier: andersonvilles00mcel (find matches)
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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ut drew back under cover of the woods and along the oldline of works that we had left, and kept up a pecking away andsharpshooting at us all night long. They opened fire on usfrom a number of pieces of artillery from the front, from theleft, and from some heavy guns away over to the right of us>in the main works around Atlanta. We did not fool away much time that night, either. Wegot our shovels and picks, and while part of us were sharp-shooting and trying to keep the Rebels from working up tooclose to us, the rest of the boys were putting up some goodsohd earthworks right where our rail piles had been, and by A STOBY OF BEBEL MTLITABY PEISONS. 281 morning we were in splendid shape to have received our friends,no matter which way they had come at us, for they kept upsuch an all-fired shellmg of us from so many different directions,that the boys had built traverses and bomb-proofs at all sortsof angles and in all directions. There was one point off to our right, a few rods up along
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THE FIGHT FOK THE FLAG. our old line of works where there was a crowd of Eebel sharp-shooters that annoyed us more than all the rest, by their con-stant firing at us through the night. They killed one of Com-pany IIs boys, and wounded several others. Finally CaptainWilliams, of D Company, came along and said he wanted acouple of good shots out of our company to go with him, so Iwent for one. He took about ten of us, and we crawled downinto the ravine in front of where we were building the works,and got behind a large fallen tree, and we laid there and couldjust fire right up into the rear of those fellows as they lay in 282 Ain)EPwSONYILLE. behind a traverse extending back from our old line of works.It was so dark we could only see where to fire by the flash ofguns, but every time they would shoot, some of us would letthem have one. They staid there until almost daylight, whenthey concluded as things looked, since ive were going to stay,they had better be going. It was an awful night.

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