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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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expect-ations of it and its defenses. We anticipated seeing a City dif-fering widely from anything ever seen before; some anomalyof nature displayed in its site, itself guarded by imposing andimpregnable fortifications, with powerful forts and heavy guns,perhaps even walls, castles, postern gates, moats and ditches,and all the other panoply of defensive warfare, with w^hichromantic history had made us famihar. We were disappointed — badly disappointed — in seeingnothing of this as we slowly rolled along. The spires and thetall chimneys of the factories rose in the distance very much asthey had in other Cities we had ^dsited. We passed a singleline of breastworks of bare yellow sand, but the scrubby pines 4. 8TOKT OF BEBEL MTLITAEY PRISONS. 75 in front were not cut away, and there were no signs that therehad ever been any immediate expectation of use for the works.A redoubt or two — without guns — could be made out, andthis was alL Grim-visaged war had few wrinkles on his front
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AN EAST TENNESSEEAN. in that neighborhood. They were then seaming his brow onthe Kappahannock, seventy miles away, where the Army ofNorthern Yirginia and the Army of the Potomac lay confront-ing each other. At one of the stopping places I had been separated from mycompanions by entering a car in which were a number of East 76 AITDEESONVILLE. Tennesseeans, captured in the operations around Xnoxville, andwhom the Kebels, in accordance with their usual custom, weretreating with studied contumely. I had always had a verywarm side for these simple rustics of the mountains and valleys.I knew much of their unwavering fidelity to the Union, of thefinn steadfastness with which they endured persecution for theircountrys sake, and made sacrifices even unto death; and, asin those days I estimated all men simply by their devotion tothe great cause of National integrity, (a habit that still clingsto me) I rated these men very highly. I had gone into theircar to do my Uttle to encourage them, and wh

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