The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1882-09-28

'Bolng nome, destined, ~, IN how
many cases, never TO bo realized
We reached the depot, wero divid-
cd into pqunds of sixty, and crowded
into box cars. We were full Of hope.
however, aud Kept saying, well, we
all will bavo room anough soon.
Or rations had boon previously
placed in each oar-s pieco Of corn
cake nbout the shape and sisc oiaI
brick We we're told thoao we're
our rations for thrco days journey
Ono Of ny comrades, ). NJ deeper
stoly resolved 10 preserve pioco Of
bread TO carry home ns q curiosity
but buugor got tho better OF tho
poor fellows resolve md saw Tic
lost crumb disappearing before tho
afternoon OF our second day's jour.
uey.
During the frat day, throo men
died 10 the car whcrc / was. My
bread lasted me two days, ne WAS
caroful not 81 cot too much AZ n time,
yot it was considerable trouble to
have It about name person con.
timed temptation 70 myself and TO
others.
Wo arrived az Macon the after
noon Of our first days travel, The
vigilance Of the guard was horo
redoubled, and the fact excited our
suspicion, that there was to be no
exchange, after oil. As We passed
through Macon, one Of Sherman's g
men pointed ont to me the bullet
marks on the buildings, and fences
made by our advance just before his
capture.
We had boeu suspicious, that We
we're going to Alabama, but our
hearts rose within as as the cars
took the direction for Savannah.
a negro informed us, that Cap
tain Sherman had ,takon Atlanta,
and was making for Macon as tight
as he can come" This looked like
removing ns to place Of security
rather than an exchange still, we
we're hopeful, that we were to be
exchanged to prevent orr capture.
| As we nearod Savannah, and
changed our guard, tho officer OF the
now guard camo up. aud we made
Inquiries OF him as to Our destins
tion--if we were to be exchanged
He replied by candidly stating thai
We were to be placed down on on,
Of tho islands, under Gro OF the Fed
eral guns.
Several men were shot, op on
} route FROM Savanuah to Charloston,
: wh,lo trying to escape from the cars
! We caught sight OF our fleet Ia the
, distance, as VIC passed over thC
, bridge leading to Charleston, -an(
our hearts thrilled with sGYGG
kind OF Joy, WHOM wo beard th'
shell from our batteries, shriekiul
: over the city. We termed theu
+ Gilmoro's errand boys, or Gilmoro'l
. morning reports on the condition o
rebeldom.
At last the cars camo TO O halt il
, the streets OF Charleston, and citizen
D negroes, and soldiers, thronging tht
s,reots, poored curiously into the car
4 to got look at tho Yanks u ap
psared to me, then, that they wore
haggored, care-worn look.
The only hopeful face OF tho groul
was como old negress, who had kop
3 fat and jolly on the idea oi Uncl
5 Abs coming soon. Ono citizer
, said to another, my hearing, THE.
4 are all foreignors-ain't thoy 2' Thi
: riled me mol little, and l replied
saying. you rccollect tho plymouth
prisoners who passed through thes
streets in April ! Eyes, perfectly
D q very fine body of men," said he.
q "Tbese are the same men you
government has starved all sem
: blance of men out Of US !" lyon ar
D foreigner !" said he, looking sneer
iugly and critically at my dilapidat-
ed wardrobe and dirty face, whicl
bad been guiltess OF washing for th
Q three days of our journey.
No / belong to Pennsylvani
Regt. ] proudly replied. He seem
4 cd much shocked, either at the fac
n of our dirty condition, that any on
o should not be ashamed 10 hail frou
I q bordering state Of robeldom. !
Q was just before sundown. when "
= formed in line, and marches
y through the back streets Of Charles
ton.
4 The effects Of the siege we're visi
!. bic upon every hand, but we wer