Identifier: soldiersstoryofh00ingoss (find matches)
Title: The soldier's story of his captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle, and other Rebel prisons
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Goss, Warren Lee, 1835-1925 Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, illustrator
Subjects: Andersonville Prison
Publisher: Boston : I.N. Richardson & Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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in him. You can imagine my surprise, to seetwo comrades seriously lugging poor Billy out on astretcher one morning, with his toes tied together,—which was all the ceremony we had in prison in layingout the dead. I took a last look at poor Billy as he layupon the stretcher, and said, Poor fellow! I littlethought he would go in this way. He makes a verynatural corpse, said one of the boys ; and sure enough,he looked the same almost as in life, only his face wasa little dirtier if anything. The next day I was startledto hear, that after Billy was laid in the dead-house,he took to his legs as lively as ever, and walked away.He never was heard of in my prison experiences again,and probably escaped to Shermans army, winch wasthen at Marietta. Tunnelling was performed in much the mannerwoodchucks dig their holes. First, a hole was sunkabout five feet in the ground, then were commencedparallels, the hole sufficiently large to admit one. Thelabor was performed during the night, and the dirt
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He was shot through the lungs, and laid near the dead linewrithing in torments during most of the forenoon.—Page 85. THE DEAD LIKE. 85 carried off in haversacks and bags, and scattered aroundcamp. The mouth of the tunnel was covered up duringthe day to prevent discovery, which was more liableto happen than otherwise, from the fact that greatinducements of extra rations were offered to spies. Iwas engaged in digging, during the first month, on noless than four, which were all discovered before beingfinished. One of the great instruments of death in the prisonwas the dead line. This line consisted of a row ofstakes driven into the ground, with narrow board stripsnailed down upon the top, at the distance of aboutfifteen feet from the stockade, on the interior side.This line was closely guarded by sentinels, stationedabove on the stockade, and any person who approachedit, as many unconsciously did, and as in the crowd wasoften unavoidable, was shot dead, with no warning what-ever to adm

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