The National tribune., 1882-09-09

Ohio cavalry regiment, and chief OF our nun
dred, made his escape in this manner, un-
noticed by the drowsy guards, and was fol-
lowed by seventeen companions. The train
was moving at full speed, and of the entire
party only one was seriously injured. He
got his iawbone broken by striking his chin
on his knee, and was left insensible where
lie fell. A planter found him the next
morning and cared for him with great kind
hess. OF the eighteen fugitives only two or
three ever reached the Union lines. The
Sergeant was tracked by bloodhounds driven
up tree and recaptured. Should fortune
favor he viii try his luck again.
Nor. 2d-The members of our hundred
are mildly jubilant to-day. We have re-
ceived marching orders. Tonight we leave
for some other bull-pen, along, with nine
hundred other prisoners. Thank God! we
won't die in AndersOnville, anyhow" is the
general ejaculation. Our destination is a
mystery.
MILLEN PRISON, Norem5er 6h.-Our new
stOckade is in Burke county, Ga, about
ninety miles northwest of Savannah. We
left Andersonville On the evening of the I'd
inst. in small box cars, eighty-three men to
q car and closely guarded. We had barely
started on our journey when n terrific storm
set in, which ragged for forty-eight hours
without inteTmission. Fears were felt lest
the railroad track would give way some
where ON the route Many of US might have
ho1 I,,+ h. ~
and swamps were overlooking, the weather
was unusually cold, and we learned that the
potato crop had been gathered. These facts
induced us to abandon our purpose. While
we weIe getting Off the cars at the railroad
station at this point, early on the morning
Of the 4th, q member of our mess made p
misstep and broke his neck He fell down
between the car and station platform, and
we left his body lying there. That night,
our first in the stockade, three members Of
our mess froze to death, and other messes
lost men in the same way. The total num-
ber Of deaths by freezing that night is esti-
mated at thirty or forty. The suffering here
from cold and hunger is perfectly heartrend-
ing. Maddened and embittered by the pros
poets before them, hundreds of prisoners
have enlisted III the rebel army. Others are
following their example daily. None of us
condemn them for it. When prisoner
makes up his mind TO this desperate step, he
tells his friends so, gives them whatever he
possesses that will he of any use to them,
bids them farewell, and walks out unin-
peded. Its nobodys business but his own;
the Governments gone back on u.s. and it's
every devil for himself" is the customary
comment 4 dozen wretches were once
mObbed at Andersonville for attempting TO
do this very thing, but the prisoners have
changed their minds since then. They now
permit every man to do as he pleases about
it. Let the Government settle the matter in
the future if it chooses None Of these rene
gades intend to fight Union troops, and all
intend to escape to the Union lines at the
first opportunity. The rebels grandilo-
quently style them members Of the For
eign Legion" We call them galvanized
Yankees" On enlisting they receive 500
in confederate money three bushels of sweet
potatoes, and a neat gray uniform bearing "a
slender blue stripe On either arm, This