Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-10
Of travel they We're landed at Libby
MONTHS IM .PRIsoN. J.

For 10 months and two weeks the men m sl1
IElanguished III prison and when Rogers
Was released his mind was so badly
Unmarried that it was years before ne
was himself again. For IS years ne
attempted to get a5pension, but the
war. department believed that IT was !E' Z
the fairy tale5of a suffering soldier that
the man told.
SEVERN years ago while relating the
story he was told that a man in CHE;
cago told the same tale. He learned
his identity and started for the windy
city to get his affidavit to secure his
pension After a three days search
he was back Mt the railroad station q
ready to start home unable to ind his
man.
( AS he strolled ~ and down before Tor,
the gates he notice. Il tall, gray haired
man with a soldierly bearing among the
+ crowd Ills appearance seemed famil-t
lar and he accosted him. Then fortune.
which only knocks at your door nee,
dawned on him. The man was Col
Frost, who stayed over veral days IN,
Chicago to produce the affidavit.
" 9 Poor old Foster, j have not seen nm
since we left prison, said Mr.. Rogers
a.,1Iis neck was so badly Wrenched that
he never recovered. He is probably
dead by this time. j have never been
able to secure any record of him W hen
he was in prison his head was twisted
TO one side.
CITY ON IA LOT.
People would not begin to believe
the stories that are told OF Anderson n
vile prison declared C. d: Fuller, VINO
enlisted from the Seventh Wisconsin
infantry When i Went there the5
stockade was well timbered but beforss
u left there was not q root OF g. .plade OF
grass left Just think of $4,000 peop'lss
camping on q 10 acre lot, one-t hird Of
which was covered with a swamp.
.iJust outside the prison was plenty
of wood but the prisoners We're left 70
starve and suffer.
# Then Mr.. Fuller and J. w. smith,
715 Second avenue, fell to discussing the
tortures OF life at Andersonyille.
My Introduction to old 5Wlrtz, 1n5
general in charge of the prison, ~ SAID
Mr. Smith, Twas to see him klck4a man
to death. If a prisoner was too weak
to walk this noted keeper of the prison.
would Jump off from his horse and
stamp and kick the man. It was s:lla
there that every guard who shot ~
prisoner was given q furlough OIL ao
DAYS as a reward for his bravery.
providence spring was the greatest
5C,odsend Il ever saw. 1t was along IN
August when the spring started up m
those prison quarters where II hau
ne YER been before. AS soon as It start ;.
Cd the men stole a wagon box that mao
heen left on the grounds and this as 4
reservoir sunk in the ground ana pros
yided a drinking place.
WOUNDED IN HEAD.
Mr. Fuller was taken a prisoner
n FER being wounded at the battle OF
Tie wilderness. a. bullet struck ms
head in front of his left ear and came
rnIt In the back of his neck. W ntli
he was at Arldersonville some Of the
nrisoners adopted desperate tactics ana
q q soon as a new prisoner appeared q
humber Of them would strip MN OF
.nvarything. 1T was then that a munlci-
palitv was organized among the prls,
oners. a mayor was elected, as Wen ',t
as "a Judge and others. Sometnirg liksS
AZ prisoners were taken ana trleu s alli
six were sentenced to hang ana oit q
scaffold in the prison yard SIX pr l''Il
ers paid the death penalty.
Mr. Fuller was captured ON May q,
1854 and taken to Andersonville where
IIe remained until Sept 81 He was
then taken in an exchange SQUAD .l 70
charleston and later to winning ION.
once he tried to8escape, and got as FAR
as the Blue Mountains, but was again
captured.
AfterI the 4 federal troops attacked
Wilmington, and the town was evac-
.uated Mr.. Fuller.was marched q, ,ouL ~, ~
b prisoner. While under guard along
the road out he slipped into a5ditch at
the roadside and hid. He could hear
the tread OF the soldiers for nearly an
hour and as they grew DINNER, ne
took to the brush, and later made ms
way, to wilmington and into the fed
seral lines.