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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 12: wanted-a shirt. (search)
ugh East Tennessee. To one who remembers the campaign of 1864, in which Thomas fell back before Hood till he got everything ready, and then utterly crushed the life out of his army, this boasting has its moral. Of course Tom and I entered into the discussion-much of it was addressed to us. They charged many hard things against the U. S. Government. Some of them we denied, some we could defend, and some we couldn't. They said we could never whip them in the world. We said the United States would govern the country or make a wilderness of it, and we didn't care which. We spoke bitterly of Andersonville, and told them-and we thought so then-that we could not live through the coming winter if they sent us back there, and we hoped our Government would retaliate. That if we could be sure that for every man who languished in Andersonville one would freeze in Camp Douglass, we would go and bravely die and rot there. We were not a bit excited. Only earnest and warm. Maybe
Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Chapter 13: Jailed. (search)
dquarters in Columbus we found two or three of these fops. Our guard approached one who was writing at a desk, and, saluting him, began: I have two prisoners- I ain't the man. He crossed the room to the other desk, and again began his statement. The clerk spoke in a haughty, disdainful manner- Where did you get these men? Capt.----caught them near-- . Where did they come from? They say, from Andersonville. Too many men get out of Andersonville, as though the guard could help it. He then turned and looked at us with as much contempt in his glance as a hotel clerk would give to a Congressman, and asked: How did you get out? We climbed out on a grape-vine. He wrote a little note and handed it to the guard. Take these men to jail, and give that to the jailer. So we went to jail in the city of Columbus, Georgia. We were criminals! Our crime was believing in the Government of the United States, and being willing to defend its flag.
Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, chapter 23 (search)
stance of his speech, although he embellished it with much boasting and many oaths. The whole speech was a lie. He was included in Johnson's surrender to Sherman, and was then under orders to go to Tallehasse to turn over his arms to the United States authorities. This we learned after we got out. After this speech the guard opened ranks, and we marched out. Good-bye, Johnnies! Good-bye, Yanks! --were the parting salutations. Were we really free? Could we go or stop, as we pleasarried to others still farther back — to be repeated again and again,--giving new vigor to weary limbs that had almost refused to do duty longer. That shout doubtless reached three or four miles back along that road. Yes, sir! It was the United States uniform! I have seen a good many fine clothes in my life-but I never saw anything, before or since, that looked so pretty as those cavalry jackets! We started toward them at once, and went to where the troop was waiting. If we were
Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Speech of Gen. Garfield at the Andersonville Reunion at Toledo Ohio, October 3, 1879. (search)
, but let me say this: Nothing on the earth and under the sky can call men together for reunions except ideas that have immortal truth and immortal life in them. The animals fight. Lions and tigers fight as ferociously as did you. Wild beasts tear to the death, but they never have reunions. Why? Because wild beast's do not fight for ideas. They merely fight for blood. All these men and all their comrades went out inspired by two immortal ideas: first, that liberty shall be universal in America; and second, that this old flag is the flag of a Nation, and not of a State--that the Nation is supreme over all people and all corporations. Call it a State; call it a section; call it a South; call it a North; call it anything you wish, and yet, armed with the nationality that God gave us, this is a Nation against all Statesovereignty and secession whatever! It is the immortality of that truth that makes these reunions, and that makes this one. You believed it on the battle-field, you