Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-29
ANDERSONVHIE,
ONCE THE AeomINAToN OF DEsoLATIoN AND
BEAUTIFUL SPOT GRASS GROWN,

have stood upon the grounds at
! Andersonville and gazed upon its
| slopes, It's verdure and its mighty
trees, ! have seen the green fields
and forests that encompass it about
| the growing corn and cotton. tile
Wheat, the succulent pasture grass,
the comfortable homes, broad acres
OF tobacco, the fat stock, the sweet
running water OF the streams which
flow through and all around Andei-
sonville. And, having seen. the soul
revolt grows over the deliberate and
ffendishly planned proposition of jeff
Davis and his advisors to bring into
this land of fair promise prisoners
taken in honorable conflict upon the
field of battle, and who under the
articles of war. We're entitled to hui
name treatment. to deliberately starve
them to death,
This cannot be truthfully denied.
because. as | have already shown
Winder. Cobb, Wirz, jeff Davis and
his other advisors knew to the last
poor soul the conditions that were
sending each to death and deadly
night in that Horrible stockade Tan
talus thirsted and starved with water
Nearly 1900 Union prisoners thirsted
and starved to death. although they
often stood where stood last May.
on the northern or the southern slope
of Andersonville stockade, and saw
green fields fair pastures and life
giving waters. cruelty denied their
feverish lips and cool, shady forests,
whose ever. green branches would
~
suffering. and yet this also was de-
MED them.
Again | say. the truth of this can
not DE denied because | have tho most
eminent authority for it-rebel en-
tirely, business men. soldiers. men
of God. and Infatuated Southern NNom-
en- vino did not love the Yankees. hut
feared that the inhuman treatment of
our brave soldiers would be lasting
rcproach nn the good name of the
South In all this battering ram OF
truth not one single Union soldier or
authority have I quoted. The world
must say, as did Christ in the para
BILE: "Out Of thine own mouth will /
fudge thee. thou wicked servant
Confederate records confirm the fact
that ;he Confederacy. despairing of
victorv by arms in honorable war.
perfected her prison pen plans for de-
spelling the Northern armies. Moth
ing more diabolieal has been devised
since harharfans began to torture mon.
It was to starvc 10 death the pris-
oners taken in battle.
AndersonviIIe Diabolically Planned.
Brutal. inhuman as it sounds it is
he b,l1 M
have been the center of the fiendish
system and Andersonville the spot
chosen to work 1t out in all its horri-
HE particulars While time lasts An
dersonviTe will be a stencil in the
nostrils of civilization. Barbarians
have paved their roads with the bones
of their enemies and built monu-
inents of human skulls.
Savage bellies have worn neckleces
of dried human hearts and woven
bride reirs of the sunny curls of ba-
bies killed in their mothers arms.
There was a black hole of Calcutta.
a Sepoy rebellion and CaWnpore's Well
and the Torture Chamber of the In
QUESTION. but these were as moonlight
unto sunlight or as purgatery to hell
in comparison with the refinement of
cruelties practiced upon the brave
men. young and old who here gave
the last full measure of devotion to
the Nation III it's death grapple with
secession and ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
AS ! looked out oTer those beauti-
full and fertile Georgia hills and dates
on that perfect May Gay. the day long
dedicated to the dead of the war of
the rebellion, the lazily floating mists
that rose from the nearby swales were
not alone responsible for the dinnesS
that hid from my eyes the deepening
beauties of the scene as the sun rose
over the trees of the old fort north
east of the Stockade. 1t is no falrer
there TO-DAY than it was A years ago
mot one whit more fertile. no better
peopled. / was told by men and wo-
men who have lived there since long
before the war,
Flxcept as Nature has touched 1t
with softening fingers, the old stock
AIDE has not been touched by the I'M
proving hand. Some monuments have
been erected on the spots where whole
companies hnd more we're done TO
death inside the stockade and over
Providence Spring. as stated before,
beautiful stone canopy had been fals-
ed The old stockadc is marked with
tall white posts 10 feet apart and ~
feet inside of those smaller posts mark
the dead line.
In the center of the stockade
magnificent flagstaff has been erected
and from this floats in all its Teful-
gent glory through the daylight hours
the flag for which these dead of An
dersonville suffered as no martyr OF
old ever suffered, for principles ana
for country.
The pretty cottage. pictured last
week, all the stables and outbuiiliheS
are erected on the additional ground
purchased when the w. r. c. took the
grounds.
All about lie weIl-tilled farms
planted in cotton, corn and TOBACCO,
just rs it was AZ years ago, and mere
and there are the pine forests, Trimmed
some now. but the same trees when
might have furnished heat and shell
ter for our poor soldiers but for Con
| federate Indifference of deVlllshness.
| You may name it yO2fSeH.