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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 6 : Providence . (search)
Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Chapter 7 : wrecked. (search)
Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Chapter 8 : plans of escape. (search)
Chapter 8: plans of escape.
Taken back to the pen.
plans of escape.
Tunnels.
bloodhounds.
poor drummer boy.
our plan
Rebels and Yanks worked together till the wounded were all out of the wreck, which was probably about midnight.
We did not get all the dead out till daylight next morning.
A construction train came down next morning, unloaded its gang of men, took up the wounded, and returned to Andersonville.
It returned about noon, and after getting the debris out of the way, and getting all the cars that could be run on the track, they took us back to the pen.
One of the smashed cars was covered with a tin roof, of which I secured a piece about 20x24 inches, and after getting into prison, I made me a nice pan, by turning up about four inches all around.
It proved to be a very valuable piece of property after we began to draw our rations.
When the train came back after taking the wounded, they brought the bloodhounds and took a circuit around the wr
Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Chapter 11 : bloodhounds. (search)
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)
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)
Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Chapter 14 : camp Lawton . (search)
Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Chapter 15 : the Presidential election. (search)
Chapter 15: the Presidential election.
False Promises of exchange.
searching for acquaintances.
Presidential election.
the result
Any one can see by my description of Camp Lawton, that it was a better place than Andersonville.
Still it lacked a good deal of being a fit place in which to spend the winter.
When Tom and I entered, about the first of November, 1864, there were about ten thousand men there.
They were all corralled on the west side of the creek, and were without shelter, except such miserable apologies as we saw in Andersonville.
Nearly all the men in the prison were from that horrid pen-taken out on promise of exchange, only to keep them docile and tractable till they could get them to a safer place.
It is mean to raise hopes and dash them down, and the effect was plainly seen here in the large number in which hope was dead, and who were anxious to be dead literally, as the only way to escape from woes that had become unbearable.
Tom
Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Chapter 16 : Enlistments. (search)
Chapter 16: Enlistments.
Attempt to Entice prisoners to make Shoes for the rebel army.
the temptation.
Enlistments.
running the gauntlet.
another change.
When we were in Andersonville there were many attempts to find mechanics and artisans among the prisoners.
Calls were made for shoemakers, machinists, blacksmiths, etc. The rebel authorities offered to furnish food and clothing and pay good wages to any one who would go out on parole and work in their shops.
It was a gre mericans were among them.
They were generally foreigners who did not fully understand the war and it's issues.
It was also intimated that if any one would enlist in their army, he would receive rations and pay as a soldier, but while in Andersonville I saw no strong effort to induce any one to enlist.
But in Camp Lawton, soon after the Presidential election, rebel recruiting officers came into the pen and openly and boldly tried to hire men to join the rebel army.
They offered any on
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)
Chapter 18: sent back to Andersonville.
Flanking.
exchange.
a dash for liberty.
moved again.
a square meal.
back to Andersonville
In the pine wAndersonville
In the pine woods, about a mile from Blackshear, we were corralled on about five acres of ground.
There was no wall or fence to enclose us. A dead-line was staked off, and ou m slightly by flanking.
The trick of flanking a ration was not possible at Andersonville or Millen, where we were carefully counted into and out of the pen. But her or three trains of cars backed in. We were soon aboard.
Now, where?
To Andersonville!
On Christmas Day.
The day of peace and good-will; when all the earth blacker by the contrast of pleasant recollections, we were brought back to Andersonville.
About two o'clock P. M. we were counted through the double gate.
Old died, some were left sick at Thomasville,--about seven thousand returned to Andersonville.
A few sick ones had remained there all the time, but not many — perhaps