Identifier: annalsofiowa13howe_0 (find matches)
Title: Annals of Iowa
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Howe, Samuel Storrs, 1808-1888 Parvin, Theodore Sutton, 1817-1901 Lloyd, Frederick Huff, Sanford W Aldrich, Charles, 1828-1908 Harlan, Edgar Rubey, 1869-1941 Iowa. Division of Historical Museum and Archives State Historical Society of Iowa Iowa. Historical Dept Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art Dept
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Publisher: (Des Moines, etc., Iowa State Historical Dept., Division of Historical Museum and Archives, etc.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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my, and would shelter theguards—3,000 in number. On the four angles of the stock-ade were erected the most formidable earthwork forts thatI have seen anywhere in the South. The height from theditches to the summit, almost perpendicular, must be fuilyeighteen feet. On these earthworks cannon commandedevery part of the stockade, inside and out, so that an attackfrom either the prisoners or their rescuers would have metwith a terrible artilley lire. A line of rifle pits was dug out-side of the stockade Avails for the use of infantry. Thestockade was originally intended to hold 10,000 prisoners,and then enclosed seventeen acres. The creek, with its wide,swampy margin, and the dead line cut out at least sevenacres, leaving not. more than ten upon which men could live.On this ground they were crowded in until it finally becamepacked with human beings like a stock yard filled with cattle. The following is a diagram of the Andersonville prisonand its surroundings, as it appeared in 1864; mm
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Illtli Mil I! O Q Q O Q O LLLUJ Miill .V- Stockade. M—Sweetwater Creek,i—Hospital. !—Temporary Hospital. a a—Outer Line of Stockade.>—Temporary Otticers Hospital. l> b—Middle Line of Stoekadi «)—Forts. e e—Inner Line of Stockade. - -Soup House. Isary. <l d -Hates. ■ -Hospital unices and Dispell- ee- I ?ox Canal and Dam. I —Hospital for (iuards. f 1 liakery. Cemetery, t» u; Dead Line. -Slaughter House. h h -.Railroad. ■Forest. 1— Camp of (iuards. 2— A. . M. Oiliees and Store*.Wirzs Headquarters. 4— Winders Headquarters. 5— Springs. 6— Road from Depot. 7— Wells. 8— Barracks. »—lrovidential Spring. „to-Village of Midersonvdle.—=r——Armed (Juards on \\a- ANNALS OF IOWA. 69 When the first five hundred prisoners were incarceratedinside of the stockade walls in February, 1864, they foundsonic poles that had been left, and with these and briars,vines, and tufts of pine leaves, they managed to erect rudehuts to shelter themselves

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