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: lt;-IiSpentWeeks1Jn PrisonIn South.| the neck There was a lrog-hke sound in hiss throat as he died. They j took me back to Gainesville. where i luuno about 50 ot our men hefaed together and surrounded by Southern: guards. jWAS LIFTED ON TRAIN ; “They took us on a long march jthrough Florida and gave us nothing at ail to eat. 1 was able to pick a lew oranges. We were put into a (EDITOR'S NOTE; This is another prison m Georgia. As we were be- j m a series of stories being written ing taken m, a mule team came out about C ivil War teteran* li\ing in tia.ulmg a load ot dead Union prison* Athens County, as told to Francos ers %Vho had gone bet ore us. 1 had YYIIIock.) i three buddies there, and they cited“it was awful; i wouldn’t live it j one r,y one. We were kept untilover again tor anything, William j surrendered. 1 had to be liltedSoutherton, Athens Civil War veter- j on ine train, but i was able to slide ;?i]an decided alter relating a tew or j his war experiences. And despite the j entertaining vividness with which he describes the fighter aspects which j he features in his stories, it is easyto understand why,ALWAYS IN ACTION Member ot a regiment famous tor j ferent its daring, the Seventy-Fifth (J. V. i I., he seemed destined to remain { from beginning to end in the most intense fighting of the war, j“We spent some time un Morris Island alter taking Folly Island, and used to cross the strip ot watei separating it from the mainland iie-quently. We concentrated on Fort Surlier and Fort Wagner on Morris Island, in the swamp land around Fort Sumter, the Union force* threw up an artificial island and stationed a gigantic gun which became Knownot! when we reached our destination.The Union men to whom we were turned over, handed us guns and ordered us to shoot our Southern j guards. But they were a new set, ! and we refused. Had they been the) old ones, it would have been a dif-storv.”Girl Scout NotesGirl Scouts who passed troop tests in the Forget-Me-Not Patrol, Troop 1, arc Anna Margaret Morrison,Betty Jane Fulton, Dorcihy Eddie- jas. ‘The Swamp Angel The South!1IS 16jg '•psgeietried repeatedly, but were never ableto locate the Angel.#“Another gun we used was so large that two men were just able to lift a shell to load it. The jar was j terrific when it was fired. Men in its vicinity would stand on tip-toe,and I have seen drop* of blood oozing from the eyes ot those operating ft. Several of the men who stayed | with it became deal.WE CHANGED THE FORT “Our attack on Fort Wagner began with relentless tire by a gun fleet and the army. We fired the I magazines, and the light blazed out , over the water for miles. Then the commanding officer gave orders to fix bayonets and charge the Port. I | started through a zig-zag ditch accompanied by a negro. A shell whistled in a straight line down the ditch.| but we couldn’t get out. The siand-bags offered about as much ioothoid as loose snow, The nemo buried his*m *head in one. and the shell burst in the next ditch, showering us with dirt. When we reached the Fort, itwas held by only one man. and hewas dying. The others had deserted.and it was his intention to blow up i the Fort arid go with it, but he was jtoo far gone. They had not buried their dead, but w hen we undertook | the work, we found torpedos con-I! cealed under the bodies in anticipation oi that. We I cl t them there, j When morning came, a monitor wasSaleItems formerly25cOffered! stranded on the beach. it« smokers;e5tit»rastacks clipped off by the cross lire. A whistle sounded, and we wereamused to see it streaming out to join the fleet.KILL OWN PICKETS“We suffered a surprise attack atChant ellorsville. We came to theLOGk* 1 woods just at sundown, and pitchedkn-)camp in an open space neat a house The pickets had just gone out. and we were preparing to make cotfe*\ when it seemed the whole SoutheiTiArmy came up on u.s through thawoods, We were helpless. When we fired into the woods, we onlyOur officers« *At the Gate oly it Ih : »« an ikilled our own pickets fell immediately, and we were leftl-A-7without command. They simply slaughtered us. f escaped into the woods, and the sight was rhe most graphic representation of “hell-fire ( and brimstone,“ that i have ever seen. The smoke hung in a cloud, unable to escape from the woods. It I was in my throat for days. It was adark night and I was lost. Sudden-| ly a terrific battle started up about a mile away, the small firearms cracking until they completely drowned out the big guns. I came upon some Union men driving cattle through the woods, and got headed in the direction of the line of battle. The firing kept up all night and the next day, but when I reached the line, it had died down,FLAG STEALING GENERAL “At Gettysburg, 'they took our flag, and we grabbed theirs over the wall. Tha boys tore it up for trophies. 1 remember particularly the cavalry battle there. The field waswstrewn with dead horses. You couldn’t have counted them. They were lying in every conceivable position. ‘ |“I was captured at the battle at ! Gainesville, Fla., near the close of the war. We had held out for some j time, hopelessly. Each time an offi-| eer would go out in an attempt to ; surrender, he would be deliberately j ■ shot down I found a horse and jstarted down a road in the opposite,direction The company doctor s ne-gro servant came with me on an*i iOther horse Four Confederate men soon headed us off. They took my gun. then shot the negro He tell from the horse into the road, then i rose to his hands and knees One of the men shot him In the back of»AGenuine. 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Athens Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Mon, May 16, 1932
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