Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1865-08-31
NUMBER XXXV
From the Washington Chronicle
RECORDS OF ANDERSONVTTIE.

| .. rom tue W aSn1ngtOn Chronicle.
| RECORDS OF ANDERSONVTTIE
Tho fnllow;nc ,o,,or fron, .oId;o- nho
e''s' WV
"p'n' s0'"o nio'!'ns "i'n'h tue hateo walls OF
Andersonvilie, is one more interesting addi-
tion to the chronicles of that "vale of Hin
nom" wherein so many of our countrv.s SON.
uoro so.r;Gooa - ,hn Mo,,.h or ,.o.oo.
'"0 -,'''o'" Vi "eas0n
'oo' "''oi PROOF acculhuiates' ana "heh 'he
last page OF Its horrible history is written,
! who, even among the most ardent advocates
of rebcl,iop can bancsfortl, dorb, Tho s.,a-
;.h ao.;o as H., A., Ill.
'S.' '''' VI '"0 A''A''a''o' "nu n's myf"
mluohs
573 WEST SEVENTEENTH STREET,
| Washington, D. c., Aug. 18. 1865.
10 the Editor Of the Ghronicle:
The would be veracous and seeming SYM
pathetic Planter" in speaking. very re-
Gently, through the columns of the New York
Evening Post, about the horrors ofthe Ander-
sonvllle prison, remarked, among other things:
l hear much of what is termed the dead
ttne; few, however, know what it is.
After the assumption of command by Major
Wlrz, he caused the prisoners to be notified
that if they approached within thirty feet Of
the stockade they would be shot by the guards
upon the outside. This limit of thirty feet
eas unmarked Iy a"y line mhaterer,-it mas
adedl." Ideal! Alas. it is this poor "Plau-
ter" who Is ideal, and loves to see Ills visions
IN italics. wonder very much ,chen he saw
the prison; and, i he ever saw it, ,chere his
eyes were, and what Kind Of sight they had.
This visionary, yet would be sympathetic
observer, stood, unfortunately, upon the
wrong viewpoint, and looked in the wrong
way through the wrong telescope, SO that.
instead OF seeing-as all others saw-a polpd-
Gte dead line. he, poor fellow saw an mag.
mary one.
There 'rns a "aead inc"-an dctwal sui
ssan't" 'fead Hne--ciMin that anJm, that
indeScriGoLte Drison. This dead line ,ras
about four feet in height. and 1t ran parallel
"iM and wafhin about trenty or t,ceaty-frs
teet Of The stochade. | entered the hell at
Andersonville in July, 1864; that dead line
was there then: it rad been there long before
| came, and it was there even on the 18th Of
November, 1864, when the prison was con
pletely empty. l was in the wretched hos
ptal without the stockade when the last batch
of prisoners left the prison for the stockade
at Mlllen, (about the 10th of November y
| saw the ruthless "Johnnies," with their
bloodhounds, hunt through every hole (of
which there were hundreds here and there
dug or burrowed in the prison as shelters) to
see if any prisoners had secreted themselves.
| saw the prison naked and bare of every
thing; bm still Isaw tie accursed dead Inc.
Not only was there dead-line in the pris.
on pen at Andersonville but there was one
also in the prison at Nillen; but the latter
was never so deeply stained with the blood Of
human wretches, for there skeletons were shot
oo"n WITHOUT any cause Whatever; but the
most OF them were murdered whilst in the
act of drawing water. In order that YOU
NAV better understand this T ,nust rom,rL
tb.t r,t,o to,,,o.a '. -c'.iA ~.
"' " '"P""y o'iuse crossed Tue
apomlhaple stream (Which ran through the
prison) on the west side, between which
bridge and the dead line ,vos a d;st.roo of
| co., 10 Go. 81 -. AZ: "
ao"1 'o ico,' anu W 'his HUE portion all VINO
mad no right to the wells~" were confined
! for water but notwithstanding some efforts 4,
| keen this little nort;on cle,, i ,ro,lI f,o,,