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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through which we ploddedsilently, until night closed in around us some ten miles from theGap. As we halted to go into camp, an indignant Yirginianresented the invasion of the sacred soil by firing at one of theguards moving out to his place. The guard looked at the fel-low contemptuously, as if he hated to waste powder on a manwho had no better sense than to stay out in such a rain, whenhe could go in-doors, and the bushwhacker escaped, mthouteven a return shot. Fires were built, coffee made, horses rubbed, and we laid downwith feet to the fire to get what sleep we could. Before morning we were awakened by the bitter cold. Ithad cleared off during the night and turned so cold that every-thing was frozen stiff. This was better than the rain, at all 40 ANDEKSONYILLE. events. A good fire and a hot cup of coffee would make thecold quite endurable. At dayhght the bugle soundedRight forward ! fours right /again, and the 300 of us resumed our onward plod over therocky, cedar-cro^v^ned hills.
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THE REBELS MAKCHING THROUGH JONESVILLE. In the meantime, other things were taking place elsewliere.Our esteemed friends of the Sixty-fourth Virginia, who were incamp at the little town of Jones\411e, about -iO miles from theGap, had learned of our starting up the Valley to drive themout, and they showed that warm reciprocity characteristic ofthe Southern soldier, by mounting and starting down the Valleyto drive us out. ItTothing could be more harmonious, it will beperceived. Barring the trifling divergence of views as to whowas to drive and who be driven, there was perfect accord in ourideas. Our numbers Avere about equal. If I were to say that theyconsiderablv outnumbered us, I v/ould be followino: thft univer- A STOET OF REBEL MTLITAKT PRISONS. 41 sal precedent. Iso soldier — high or low—ever admitted engag-ing an equal or inferior force of the enemy. About 9 oclock in the morning — Sunday — they rode throughthe streets of Jonesville on their way to give us battle. It washer

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