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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LEVEN YAKDS KILLING THE REBEL. A 8T0ET OF BEBEL MTLITAilY PRISONS. 43 One brave man, riding a roan horse, attempts to rally hiscompanions. He halts on a little knoll, wheels his horse toface us, atid waves his hat to draw his companions to him. Atall, lank fellow in the next four to me — wlio goes by the nick-name of Leven Yards — aims his carbine at him, and, with-out checking his horses pace, fires. The heavy Sharpes bullettears a gaping hole through the Eebels heart. He drops fromhis saddle, his life-blood runs down in little rills on either sideof the knoll, and his riderless horse dashes away in a panic. At this instant comes an order for the Company to break upinto fours and press on through the forest in pursuit. My fourtrots off to the road at the right. A Eebel bugler, who hasbeen cut off, leaps his horse into the road in front of us. Weall fire at him on the impulse of the moment. He falls fromhis horse with a bullet through his back. Company M, whichhas remained in colu

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