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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Confederate prisons. (search)
ng the row of the previous night could be marked by Andersonville prison. the motionless forms of those who were sleeping on in their last sleep—frozen to death! The cold froze them, said the report, because they were hungry; the hunger consumed them, because they were cold. At Andersonville, Ga., the sufferings of the captives were still more acute and dreadful, and the cruelties practised upon them were more fearful. The prison was one open pen, in an unhealthy locality, near Anderson Station, about 60 miles from Macon, and surrounded by the most Castle thunder. fertile region of the State. The site was selected, it is said, at the suggestion of Howell Cobb, the commander of the district. It comprised 27 acres of land, with a swamp in the centre. A sluggish and choked stream crawled through it, while within rifle-shot distance flowed a brook of pure, delicious water, 15 feet wide and 3 feet deep. Had that stream been included in the pen, the prisoners might have drunk