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Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Chapter 18: sent back to Andersonville. (search)
homasville is about as fine as can be found in Georgia. The soil is good, and the climate mild enough for figs to grow out of doors. We were left here about a week when all who could walk were made to march sixty miles across the country to Albany. I do not know what became of the sick who could not walk. We never saw them any more. On this march, Tom B , my old chum of the swamps, slipped his guard and went to a farm-house and got a square meal, and then told what manner of man he was, and let the old citizen arrest him and bring him back. At Albany we were crowded in and around the depot. Many of the citizens came down to see us and talk with us. The guard was kind, and allowed us to talk with them. Some were pleasant and agreeable, and others were ill-natured and quarrelsome. Some wanted to know what Youalls want to fight we-uns for. Some asked us to sing a song, and we gave them John Brown, with a chorus of three or four thousand voices. That song always touche