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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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e whole prison that he was never called upon todemonstrate it. He was a big-hearted, genial Irish boy, whowas never known to get into trouble on his own account, butonly used his fists when some of his comrades were imposedupon. He had fought in the ring, and on one occasion hadkiUed a man with a single blow of his fist, in a prize fight nearSt. Louis. We were all very proud of him, and it Avas as goodas an entertainment to us to see the noisiest roughs subside intodeferential silence as Ned would come among them, like somegrand mastiff in the midst of a pack of yelping curs. ±^edentered into the regulating scheme heartily. Other stalwartspecimens of physical manhood in our battalion Avere SergeantGoody, Ned Johnson, Tom Larkin, and others, who, while not 228 AITOEBSONVILLE. approaching Carrigans perfect manhood, were still more thana match for the best of the Raiders. Key proceeded with the greatest secresy in the organizationof his forces. He accepted none bat Western men, and pre-
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KEY BLUFFING HIS WOULD-BE ASSASSINS. ferred Illinoisans, lowans, Kansans, Indianians and Ohioans.The bo3^s from those States seemed to naturally go together,and be moved by the same motives. He informed Wirz whathe proposed doing, so that any unusual commotion within theprison might not be mistaken for an attempt upon the Stock-ade, and made the excuse for opening with the artillery.Wirz, who happened to be in a complaisant humor, approved ofthe design, and allowed him the use of the enclosme of theKorth Gate to confine his prisoners in. In spite of Keys efforts at secresy, information as to hisscheme reached the Eaidei*s. It was debated at their head- A BTORT OF EEBEL MILITARY PRISONS. quarters, and decided there that Key must be killed. Threemen were selected to do this work. They called on Key, atdusk, on the evening of the 2d of July. In response totheir inquiries, he came out of the blanket-covered hole on thehillside that he called his tent. They told him what they hadheard, and

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