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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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Cap, overcoat, boots and revolver belt went on, and eyesopened at about the same instant. As I snatched up my carbine, I looked out in front, and thewhole woods appeared to be full of Eebels, rushing toward us,all yelhng and some firing. My Captain and First Lieutenanthad taken up position on the right front of the tents, and partof the boys were running up to form a hue alongside them.The Second Lieutenant had stationed himself on a knoll on theleft front, and about a third of the company was rallyingaround him. My chum was a silent, sententious sort of a chap, and as weran forAvard to the Captains hue, he remarked earnestly: WeU: this beats heU! I thought he had a clear idea of the situation. All this occupied an inappreciably short space of time. The 54 AXDERSONVILLE. Eebels had not stopped to reload, but were riishing impetuouslytoward us. We gave them a hot, rolling volley from our car-bines. Many fell, more stopped to load and reply, but the mass ?i;^..„„.i&i:^^g;3f:j*:
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CX)MPANr L GATHERING TO MEET THE REBEL ATTACK. surged straight forward at us. Then our fire grew so deadlythat they showed a disposition to cover themselves behind therocks and trees. Again they were urged forward, and a bodyof them headed by thfeir Colonel, mounted on a white horse,pushed forward through the gap betAveen us and the SecondLieutenant. The Rebel Colonel dashed up to the Second Lieu-tenant, and ordered him to surrender. The latter—a gallantold gray beard — cursed the Rebel bitterly and snapped his nowempty revolver in liis face. The Colonel fired and killed him,whereupon his squad, with two of its Sergeants killed and halfits numbers on the ground, surrendered. The Rebels in our front and flank pressed us with equal close- A STOKT OF REBEL MTLITAEY PRISONS. 56 ness. It seemed as if it was absolutely impossible to checktheir rush for an instant, and as we saw the fate of our com-panions the Captain gave the word for every man to look outfor himself. We ran back a litt

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