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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fficer or attendant passed again that way, and rudely thrust himwith his foot from his path, saying, One more Yanksgone to the devil. Sitting this evening before thecrackling blaze of a New Englands winter fire, andcheered by civilized comforts, I cannot repress a chillof horror and creeping sensations of shivering terror atits mere remembrance. Such occurrences were too much a matter of course to be noticed, and I only instance this solitary, unknowndying man, among the suffering thousands of the prisonpen, as an example of the fiendish hate and malicewhich pursued these patriots of the Union even whenthe doors of death were closed upon then starved,unburied forms! Carrying away the dead to their final rest was but ahorror in keeping with the scenes described, and afitting climax to the life of misery which ended in theprison. The dead that gathered during the day wereplaced in what was known as the dead house, — a rude 2. o * =r» W ii P3 re p s CD D 00 o* s 3 p 3 S th» _ S^1 o B
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TREATMENT OF THE DEAD. 149 shed frame, covered with bushes. From thence, eachmorning, they were taken, thrown upon a cart drawnby three mules, with a negro driver seated upon themiddle one, over the ungraded field to the place ofinterment. The bodies were usually thrown, one uponthe other, as high as could be reached; often the head,shoulders, and arms of one or more of the bodies pro-truding over the side and from the rear of the cart, orfrom under the dead piled above them, — the droppingjaw, the swaying head, undulating with each motionof the cart, the whole mass of bodies jolting and sway-ing, as a comrade expressed it, like so much softsoap. It was said that from these carts maggots andvermin of various kinds could be scooped, after such anexcursion, by the handful. In these same carts ourrations were brought to us, shovelled in where thedead bodies had lain; and with flies, which gather, ina climate like Georgia, upon all eatables exposed, gaveus food, when cooked, well mixed

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