Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-06-05
people.

The comparison between the North
and South in regard to the manage
ment and everything connected with
prisoners of the war, every fair mind
ed man in this country thought was
settled forever by the great and mas
terful defense of the South, made on
this question by the Hon. BENZ. H..
Hill. The South did not and viii
never suffer by the comparison. We
did our best with the means at our
hands, and the North did their worst,
with the world open to them for men
and supplies.
Gen. Sherman truthfully said war
is He'll" and he knew what he was
talking about, for no man ever livel
who did more to make this statement
true than he did. Compare his con-
duct in his march from Chattanooga,
via Atlanta, Savannah and Columbia
to Greensboro, N. c., a broad pain
stained with robbery, arson and MUIR
der, and compare this with the invas-
ion of Federal territory by Gen. Lee
with his army. One of the saddest
things the writer ever witnessed was
when Gen. Sherman was in Atlanta.
He notified the Confederate authorities
that he had about SIX hundred Con-
federate prisoners he would like to
exchange for a similar number Of
United States prisoners. Gen. Winder,
at Andersonville, selected the requi-
site number of Federal prisoners and
took those who had been the longest
confined in the prison. They were
carried to Lovejoy's Station, and there
met the Office with the Confederate
prisoners. Each officer had muster
roll of the prisoners in his charge
and rendered them to each other for
inspection. When the Federal officer
looked at the list furnished him he
said: Il will have to take this roll
and show it to Gen. Sherman" which
he did, and when he returned he told
the Confederate officer Gen. Sher-
man declines to exchange for these
men, for the terms of service of all
of them have expired" They were then
returned to Andersonville.
Elated and happy, freed from prison
life and going to their homes and
families, a happy, joyous crowd when
they left Andersonville; carried in
sight of their friends and comrades
and refused their freedom, because
their terms of enlistment had ex-
PRED" Not recognized by Gen. Sher-
man as Federal soldiers, yet prisoners
in the hands of the enemy, their
return to Andersonville was awful,
disowned by their own people AMI
Iheartbroken-is it any wonder that the
large majority of the bones of those
men now lie in the national cemetery
at Andersonville. They were murder
Jed! Who murdered them?
The devoted women of the South
lain that Capt. Henry Wirz was q
martyr and hero. He was martyr
IN account Of the character of his
Death and a hero because he refused
70 give false testimony, to implicate
the great and good exemplar of opc
cause, Jefferson Davis, when promised
! AC NOulu w ~ uG SuOulu nave ms
freedom.
The motto of the State of Georgia
is cooled rattlesnake with the words
"Nolle Me Tangere"-"Do Not Touc
Me" We are trying to be loyal and
law-abiding citizens of this country;
our women are true and loyal and are
striving in every way to keep bright
the memories of those who suffered
for the cause they loved, and to make
true history for coming generations of
everything in the history of this coun-
try. Do not touch these women, or
you may find to your regret we know
the full meaning, and will carry it out,
of our state motto: ''Nolli Me Tan.
\ I'll not touch me-"