Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-02-28
FROM GEORGIA..
Ed. Mahan Writes Of Anderson
vile Prison and Other
Southern Places.
AMERlcUs, Feb. 10, 1895.

4
4 1t Ia 40 warm 1t seems like June. We
will get up at FIVE O'Clock In the
morning and 20 up to Anderson vile.
as we did not make the right con-
nectiOna. This is quite u manu-
featuring and railroAtFtown. was
privileged to visit a. guanO factory
In Cordial this morning, and 1t IL the
most in teresting thing | ever saw.
4 The m {, terial from which It ia made
Il IL Obt aimed from four different states.
and consists Of a kind Of rock got
/ irt m Florida. and birthstone got
from Nevada, suIphuric acid rock got
form New Mexico, and fossil got on
the south Pacific coast. All these
are burned. then ground. They have
a plant that cost 100000, to take
the carbon out Of the air and then
change it tn a liquid form; then this
ts mixed with other chemicals that
i can't think of and the ground ma
terial. This mixture makes a CON-
mon guano. 49,.
I rode with Mr.. Fitzgerald to
Americas and when we parted he
said Don't lie afraid to ask me II ]
can help you in any way" also
had the privilege of meeting the lady
that is going to build the $4,000
hotel at Fitzgerald. found her to
4 be q native Virginian, descendent
\ Of the old Mosby family Of that state
and as sharp as a tack. Her name
/ is Mrs. j. M. Morris. 49,.
I also had the pleasure OF passing
through the old J OhnsOn plantation
which produces 900 bales of cotton
q year. 1t was quite a novelty %
me to see the negroes with their
mules planting cotton. g.
finished up the day by attending
Baptist prayer meeting. l wish
+ j. H. had been there to help us tell
how good it was to serve the Master
even in weather 40 below zero.
Well, I will close by 81 yiDg cover up
the plants, shut all the doors, fill tho
stove with wood. and leave enough
on hand 80. as to keep 1t full and
have seventeen or eighteen blankets
In readiness, 80 IL it should happen
to get colder; for am rs warm as a
biscuit and happy as Il clam.
OLD ANDERsONv1LLE PRISON, GA.
Feb. 70. 1895.
Sitting inside the stockade at one
of the inside entrances of the tunnel.
writing barehanded, under u tree
that has grown since the war, will
try to tell you what 1t looks like to
me. We left Americas this morning
before O'Clock and got here before
daylight. Stopped ut sort of a
farm house and hotel; got the best
meal have had since l was in the|
colony. We had fried chicken and
you know that I never was any
hand for chicken in small lots. AZ
ter breakfast we went out to- see the
prison and cemetery. I thought l
would keep account of the Mime
sofa men buried here, but there were
SO many unknown gave it up. Tie
government has improved the cem-
etery bv putting brick wall around
it about five feet high, also by setting
trees. tombstOnes and iron tablets
with such inscriptions on them as
+ this:
1.-THE ,nuffled drums sad roll has beat
The soldiers last tattoo.
&. No more on Lifes parade shall meet
The brave. the fallen few
belie~e this is the most sacred
place in this country today, and as l
sit here and think Of this "a acres
that had 5000 men on it at one
time, without shelter and scarcely
food enough for 5000 and OF all the
suffering, it makes me sad.
have a piece off the old stump
from under which the Immortal
spring came, that gave pure water
to the thousands of thirsty heroes.
81 would not have got It., but the
sign was on the opposite side from
us, and before the guide noticed I
had a piece cut off. SO he let me have
lit. I also drank out of the spring.
I tt is said that before they were done
using these "a acres for a prison that
there was not a tree or blade OF
grass on the whole piece but now
there are trees 60 feet high, oak and
Zine. On one side of the creek is a
cotton field and on the other a corn
field. Inside this stockade is not at
all what thought it was. The
creek that runs through the center Is
at least Is feet lower than the banks
ON each side. 1t Is beautiful clear
stream about six feet wide and one
foot deep but imagine all the filth
and dirt from IS, 600 men running in
to this creek. 1t is no wonder the
water was not fit to use. There were
few wells dug, the most OF them
are not totally filled up yet. To
show you how the weather is here
will say as we came through the