, 1865-11-22
ANDERSONVILLE.
The Village and the Mill
tary Prison.
DETAILED SUBSCRIPTION OF
EVERYTHING.
Present Condition OF the St0ckades, Gem
etery, Hospitals, Forts, Bridges,
/ Out Houses, Medical Build
ings, Stocks, Garden, :
Storeaonses, &c.
WHAT WAS, And WHAT MIGHT
HAVE BEEN,


:, -
WHAT WAS, And WHAT mlGHI
HAVE BEEN,
. .u,<rr.p avn rrs
ENr,0W UIouwn1n..s
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lffo'n ous opec1al eo'sesfonesn tsa nue. - ,aes
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seAtemaa Mno eaue "t,-uta. uo"a Iou 1900. "-.a
.us lnolntns' 'sras lae 'na1 p.'sess .s4e:
10 hlhlor aen' M.son' anoonnees 1ne nans.
,ng o. nn1 on 5t'aA, "st - ta1 ,..., u s1.!ln
" uA'1 Nv u!snos essn - .uo tt't's 'i1taEse
"ue'e ne ufeu ~ lons. - tnatn ~ n"' pas'ee
peyoua Ine piIne assam, anu oame VI nea Is ne"
oops 'ot tue nepuone, Auo NC" 7o.uce 1of
eou@ VI, ~ >Ae svNe4eu psop.e, ~ "a
."taoa' ua,en W. vs. auu "1tn plH.h Palases
paut YOU 'uc anueiSon'ine o. to"Ay-afa"
~ 'oF you ae ~ -sloou Oh tne aay "hen he
Weu' "Ao tnaue ~ nafne "ofia-"lae
synonym III cruel oaroatats.
COMING HERE. l..
sat IN Inc cars talking with an e3"reoel
major, formerly on the stnd OF Howell Copb
when he had command Of the dcoig1a he-:
serves. Suddenly he broke into something
was saying, with "there's where Capt. Wing
ived"-pointing to the right OF the track IS
VIC came Southwark. I looked and saw:a
large unpanted wooden house, TWO stories
high IN lne ''uge noa seafce'S one N
1no p"nin oootne'n u"enlng
u Inc M1ase country sor'' WIN
neIo 4uat'e's ~ tae fea1 Aad aufMp patcn
On the le's' 8 saaao",'aeeo woman looked
IRON 'ue "mao", ana iafge-eyed negro
chuo $1,000 On Inc aoofsteps- III
we are near andersonvalle' then ~ said ].
les, Anderson IS only mile and half dis
tant," he responded. I learned afterwards
that the place Is rcuerally called Anderson
1,crenr,onts-fhe nf}lr ,.hEe hefne IF rr.cent oJ
gin. Years aro IL was simp1y Station. M.
F{rht and ,ees,vaa ia nrasc,,t ,,,,na IN 1,,na,.
oi neo' nopef1 Anoetsol,' o. sumter 1ame'
us through the trees the white line of the
cemetery fence. and in another instant ,ye
ss..s,.. .,,.,,.,so - ~ ,".s. A'l, -
ennsnl gnmpss W ,as 1one toms o' "n"e
hcauboafds Standing brightly in the noon-day
sunshine and within the retired circlet Of lofty
trees. It was Int A moment and Then the
1,rh borL or 4bo -,f,roaa nv shnt 49,. ~
- o1IA - y. ~ 1os'usa. sAut oat -.
view ma moment moFe' however we rolled
ont to the lerel, and a score OF persons rose
tolook ont at the windows and see the fa-
mous stnclrat1e or drcadtul memorv
rnr z,,,,,ov
a.s.1..N
otio1e lhe u. A"ae1Son nunpeteo Inc lol~
without steeple second, Dykes house, with
}ts ad,oin,np saw mil, AMI, 1r;st mil, th,.i ::
.~m 80. -. ,',.,,s,s r., s~"
smal ~nl!e aepo1 oul,ehs' loufth, a small
which the r,ost office wns Rent. and mn, .
t,-a -a.~n ~ .a,,,a r7,,s = -, ths.o -
."o-iuo" ioS e"ou. 1hA' - a.. tuclc aS u
tne 'ulage' thouEn tneFe "as naA aozcn
houses not over a mile away, OF which the
Widow Turncr'a was In sight. These six
buildings vet remain. hut the old post office
an3 ,he Tu,.,nr ,,onsa a.. r,ocrr,IeJ
INN wy nuass A'uee nv unvssap,su. VEN
1ne s1liase no" eouealns aoouL LILY ouI'a-
tnge, great and snall-thc great ones being
two or three houses built for the chief officers
9TH. ,>ost and ,,,1sco and 4ta b,1,d3,r. mat
W ~ .te eo+ua.s'"4S ~. 4u.A 's1 A*etet ~
paf1men1s, anu 1ne shaii ones oelns those
erected for the soldiers and minor officers of
the guard. All were cheaply built, noue are
na{nfed. md the general apprarance of thu
r1.os IL sono,,J .n5 co,h1ddins ~ -o1ons
pai'snnks pte sea''e'eo apo"1 VI t1aet o!
over hundred acres, which has general
slope from the northwest toward the south
east. The whole village lies west Of the rail-
roAd !
-,p p,,sox j.
Tue rA1soS.
Inc great s1oekaoe was tne central feature
of the famous Andersouville prison. Con.
uected with this were the cook house. the
hak. house. the npmenons forta IN. o,Bcers,
e,ocr,Ss | tha hosn,ts, s,ocSasa ~ shs o a,.nnn-
s'och.ae' w hosp'ta- s.oeAnoe' @ .ne usPen-
safs, tLe eeeesaote gafaeh' Inc confederate
hospital, the general Cemetery, the pest
house, and the small. pox cemetery. The
rrcat cemetery Ii pearly north NJ the 1arpe
sto.,,.a.. ..a tha h.sn;,., - a,t.aa .r,.,. ~
ssoeesar,.s ~ ~ 5,soensorr and , xr-ct,,fs 1ars A.
aeeeoss @ ssr 81 soss asps tn! ano % rsshoe KIT
oen; s neay spa.n t, anclGpi' Inc WHOLE pf1s-
On nes easl OF the fal1roau-
THE s1ockADE-
One hundred and twenty rods nearly due
east Of the little depot building is the south
4 ally contained sixteen acres, about three acres
OF which waa swamp. Eleven ncres
| were aiterward added TO the north
ern end, 60 that 1t now exists as parallelo-
gram about eighty.#ix rods long north and
south BY 1fty rods wide east and west. Some
stream which crosses it. The swamp Is
| mostly in that part north Of the brook. The
extreme southern end IS eighteen or twenty
| feet abore the lerel Of the water, and the
SLOPE down It to i i quite t. sradus,l. fhe bank 9
farther end Of the stockade Is st least thirty
| five or forty feet above the water level.
The stockade has double wall, the outer
one being about one hundred and eixty feet
from the inner one, and each being built OF
logs ten or twelve inches iu diameter, set FIVE
1eet In the Garth, and standing. twenty feet
above the surface The logs are mostly pine.
1nes. cf the outer wall retain the bark.
1nose o. tae H.. Fan arc all peeled; and
thos" o. ths oI.Slnaa s,ocA~ae arr a1so hewT.
a. tnis ooaple WAA Hcre nut sailcicat TO
| HL2A{Q &T8lu4E escape OGep UlLcQ N&$ QQT
along the southein and eastern stdes-ont-
SIDE the outer VAL, OF course and ior part
81 Lie distance on rue northern and eastern
sides, there Is csen t9asd wan 81 logs;