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Chapter 7:
Macon
a Southern Unionist in the rebel army
beneath a Georgia sun
secession speech
thoughts of home-political prisoners
horrible place
offer of the Gospel-Lieutenant A. P. Collins
contemplated escape
robes of blood!
Pinning a Federal soldier to the ground.
We were next taken to Macon, Georgia.
Macon, Georgia.
Traveling by night in box-cars, we had little opportunity to see the country.
We were much annoyed on this trip by drunken, profane, and sleepy guards.
Their cuffs and curses were almost too intolerable to be borne.
On board the train, however, there was one companionable and intelligent gentleman.
I regret that I cannot r I lay longing for the morning which came at last; and never did I greet the light of day more joyously than the 30th of May, 1862.
This was my first night in Macon, Georgia, among the sick, dead, and dying.
The place or pen thus used for a hospital, and the ground enclosing it, were of such limited dimensions, that the large num
Chapter 17:
Sufferings of captives
shooting a deaf man
a terrible punishment
arguments on slavery
opinions of celebrated men
a Sabbath School in prison
a loyal lady
Pennsylvania a Pioneer
Emancipation
our prayer-meetings
Rays of sunshine.
A large proportion of the prisoners in Macon were nearly naked, and actually were obliged to wrap rags of blankets about themselves to hide their nakedness, and many times, while listening to their stories of wrong and woe, I was moved to tears.
Among several harrowing incidents, about this time occurred the shooting of one of our party, a political prisoner, if I remember right, who was deaf.
A brutal guard had fired on him because he did not obey some order which he had given, but which of course, the victim did not hear.
I saw the poor fellow writhing in his death-agonies.
The shot had pierced directly through his bowels, inflicting a horrid and mortal wound.
Another man named Flood, for the offence of coming nea