The National tribune., 1882-09-16


could live and fatten on air.
NoU 13h.-The Union prisoners captured
at the battle of Pittsburg Landing were con-
veyed southwark by rail. Many of them
passed through Jackson, Mississippi. A
train-load of them were stoned there by the
citizens, but, being afterwards exchanged,
helped take that city in 1863 and they were
the men who burned it to the ground. Sber-
man ordered certain buildings burned, but
they burned all.
THE LORDS PRAYER MODIFIED.
Nor. 14th-The prisoners here have modi-
fed the Lords Prayer. They now render a
portion of it: "Give us every afternoon our
sweet potatoes and little chunk of beef
There appears to be a story connected with
the big tunnel discovered shortly before we
left Andersonville. A conspiracy had been
formed to capture the artillery and attack
the militia camps. The tunnel was large
enough for three men to march through it
abreast, and the intention was, on its COM
pIetion, to rally the prisoners at night
arm them with clubs and tent stakes, and
make an outbreak and a desperate battle for
liberty. Considering the condition of affairs
at that time fierce struggle would undOubt-
edly have been made had the tunnel not been
found by the rebels, and if no removals had
taken place. 1t is said that two scouts were
dispatched with orders to reach Sherman's
army, and inform that General of the intended
Ia l. II. 4I>oA
muskets could be captured from the militia
to arm nearly all the prisoners who were able
to travel any distance from the stockade.
Five hundred men worked on that tunnel,
and Oh smaller ones necessary to the general
plan. No tunneling appears to have been
attempted at this prison. So many failures
have attended such operations that we are
losing faith in them. Death appears to be
an easier ordeal here than was the case at
Anders0nville. Cool rainy, winter weather
helps man eff. Many prisoner who is able
to- draw his rations in the afternoon and walk
around in the evening is found dead in the
morning. If he is without some kind of beg
carly shelter his impoverished blood is chilled
tUIDu2u ny AO oetita
his miseries come to an abrupt termination.
This is better than reaching the same goal
after weeks and months of long-drawn-out
mental and physical agony. When you are
face to face with death for long period it
loses IT,, / of it's dreadful aspect. Death
re the natural winding up of long
.uaris0su ent in rebel stockades. When l
look # q nan can almost tell how long he
s been prisoner. If a years imprisOn-
man. MT kill man it will ruin his
Aaa5th fr Iife Boys of the requisite amount
pa rom Is to % years of age, endure
as La.a ships better than men who are 80
eaEs ol3 nd upwards
GOING HOME TO DIE.
E3p 8 To-day the peas issued to our
auudrst we're worm-eaten and worthless.
g,. was made to the commandant,
= no a ed them set outside and better ones
u us. Such an incident at Ander-
ould have amazed us. Wirz would
us that anything was good enough
tgc "a. ZEE sons of -" AS / have before
meg l, Captain Bowes is a splendid fell
3E aad S much respected by the prisoners.
4,TJ sand sick have been ordered to be
ready to be shipped to Savannah tomorrow
tas exc ange. 4 Federal feet lies off that
o..y. lie surgeons are now busily engaged
in selecting the fortunate ones who are to be
liberated. One division after another, in due
order, falls in," and the surgeons pass along
the lines and designate the lucky persons,
and they are taken out of the stockade.
Judging by appearance considerable pro-
portion of them will die before they reach
the North. Several railroad trains passed
here yesterday, going toward Macon, crowded
with recently exchanged rebel soldiers, who
threw hard crackers of Northern manufacture
to Union prisoners who happened to be at
the depot on business. These facts have
have had touch of pneumonia, which is
very fatal here, but am recovering to-day.
(On November 18th Sherman commenced his
famous march from Atlanta to the sea-
Nov 1Gh-One of the most remarkable
instances of mortality at Andersonville that
have yet heard of was the death of twenty
eight men out of company of Vermont
heavy artillery. They were all neighbors at
home. There will be sad times there when
their fate is finally learned. The company
numbered hundred men when it was first
organized. How many it numbered on being
captured don't know. (Of the Sixteenth
Connecticut infantry captured at Plymouth,
n. c., and confined in AndersOnville, Millen,
&c, one-half died within seven months.)
Five hundred sick and wounded prisoners
arrived here to-day from Andersonville. AS
they slowly entered the stOckade, hobbling
along with sticks and rude crutches, ragged
filthy, woe-begone, and shivering with cold,
they formed picture of human wretched-
ness such as the brush of painter has never
| depicted. AS if to add to the horror of the
| scene, upwards of thousand sick and dying
men who had been taken out of the stockade
for exchange during the twenty-four hours
preceding were turned back into the stockade
to await orders, and were compelled to lie
down on the cold, wet ground near the gate
from which many of them win never rise
Dead men are plenty every morning. This
is tough place, and "these are times that
try mems souls" Our ratiOns seem to grow
thinner and thinner every day. The guards
at this prison are well clad, usually in citi-
zens' attire, and look well fed. There is
quite camp of them on the outside.
| ITO be continued
Entered according to act of Congress in the year