The Dispatch Carrier and Memoirs of Andersonville Prison

orget; but the man who invented that sa

another how the Union soldiers were treated at Andersonville. I shall beg

neral Forrest, then operating near Guntown, Miss. We met him near that place on the t

ere sold out to the Johnnies; and I must

he form of a horse-shoe, with heavy timber and dense brushwood on all sides. The rebels

whole line of battle would fall. One after another of our captains fell,

than he was shot through the foot. As he went hobbling off he gave the command to f

had got up toward the front. In his hand he held a camp-kettle, and when the Johnnies first fired he stood paralyzed with fear. Finally he got his right mind, and then you ough

ity, and got across the field

made a big jump and landed up to my cartridge box in the water. Again, another shot came booming along and cut a nice path through the canebrake. It did not take me long to take advantage of these paths made by the cannon, and get out of that. The first men that I met were of my own co

called Ripley. Here we made a halt to allow the stragglers to ca

woman stepped to the window with a revolver in her hand and fired into our crowd, killing one of our lieute

y waiting for us. We formed and charged. The cavalry

er I could stand it no longer. He told me to try

ng only a few minutes when bang! bang! went the rebel guns. My brother

I am played out. You go and try to get through to

of the brush with a navy revolver in his hand. He saw that the Johnnies were all around him, and that his only chance was to fight. So he jumped upon a large rock. The rebels told him to surrender, and at the same time began firing at him. T

ed from under the tree and went back up the hill. Right in the middle of the road I found a gun, which, upon examination, proved to be loaded. I bent my own gun around a tree, took up the loaded gun and left the road.

se into the mud and water. I floundered around in there until I got completely covered with mud and filth. I finally got clear of the swamp and came to a densely wooded place upon ground a little

g the matter over we started off together. We had not gone fifty yards when we heard the click of guns and "Halt! you Yanks; throw down your guns!" "Come up here!" "Give me that hat!" "Here, I want them boots!" I had a pocket knife and seven dollars and thirty cents in my pockets. My boots were new, and I had made up my mind to wear them if anybody wore them. So when I took them

, and seen a great many men captured, but that I had never known one of our men to take a single thing from them; that if their men were ca

ed with mud from head to foot, hungry, tired and in the hands of what I knew to be a cruel enemy. You will perhaps say that I was not much of a soldier when I tell you that I cried. I

e at last to the road, and found that the rebels had 1,800 of our men prisoners. They th