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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bullets that were tearing up the earth and explodingand striking all around him. His aids and orderlies vainlytried to keep up with him. We could plainly see the Rebellines as they came out of the woods into the open grounds toattack the Sixteenth Corps, which had hastily formed in theopen field, without any signs of works, and were standing uplike men, having a hand-to-hand fight. We were just far enoughin the rear so that every blasted shot or shell that was fired toohigh to hit the ranks of the Sixteenth Corps came rattlingover amongst us. All this time we were marching fast, follow-ing in the direction General Scott had taken, who evidently had A STOKY OF EEBEL MILITAEY PRISONS. 273 ordered the Colonel to join his brigade up at the front. Wewere down under the crest of a little hiU, following, along thebank of a little creek, keeping under cover of the bank as muchas possible to protect us from tlie shots of the enemy. Wesuddenly saw General Logan and one or two of his staff upon
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LOGAN TAKING COMMAND OP THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE. the right bank of the ravine riding rapidly toward us. As he neared the head of the regiment he shouted: * Halt! What regiment is that, and where are you going ? The Colonel, in a loud voice, that all could hear, told him: The Sixty-Eighth Ohio; going to join our brigade of the Third Division — your old Division, General, of the Seventeenth Corps. Logan says, * you had better go right in here on the left of Dodge. The Third Division have hardly ground enough left now to bury their dead. God knows they need you. But try it on, if you think you can get to them. Just at this moment a staff officer came riding up on the18 274 ANDEKSOXVILLE. opposite side of the ravine from where Logan was and inter-rupted Logan, who was about telling the Colonel not to try togo to the position held by the Third Division by the road cutthrough the w^oods whence w^e had come out, but to keep off tothe right towards the Fifteenth Corps, as the woods referr

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