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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Major Strong,it appears, during a slight lull in the fighting at that part ofthe hue, having taken an ambulance and driven into the veryjaws of death to recover the remains of his loved commander.It seems he found the body right by the side of the httle roadthat we had gone out on when we went to the rear. He wasdead when he found him, having been shot off his horse, thebullet striking him in the back, just below his heart, probablykilling him instantly. There was a young fellow with him whowas wounded also, when Strong found them. He belonged toour First Division, and recognized General McPherson, andstood by him until Major Strong came up. He was in theambulance with the body of McPherson when they stopped by us. 27G ANDERSONVILLE. It seems that when the fight opened away back in the rearwhere w^e had been, and at the left of the Sixteenth Corps?wJiich was almost directly in the rear of the Seventeenth Corps,McPherson sent his staff and orderlies with various orders to vr^r^^^r^jr^^
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DEATH OF M PHEESON. different parts of the line, and started himself to ride overfrom the Seventeenth Corps to the Sixteenth Corps, takingexactly the same course our Regiment had, perhaps an hourbefore, but the Kebels had discovered there was a gap betweenthe Sixteenth and Seventeenth Corps, and meeting no opposi-tion to their advances in this strip of woods, where they werehidden from view, they had marched right along down in therear, and with their line at right angles with the line of worksoccupied by the left of the Seventeenth Corps; they were thusparallel and close to the little road McPherson had taken, andprobably he rode right into them and was killed before he real-ized the true situation. A STOKY OF KEBEL MILITARY PEISONS. 277 ** Having piled our knapsacks, and left a couple of our oldermen, who were played out with the heat and most ready todrop with sunstroke, to guard them, we started on again. Theam.bulance with the corpse of Gen. McPherson moved offtowards the right o

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