Andersonville, Volume 4

Andersonville A Story Of Rebel Military Prisons Fifteen Months A Guest Of The So-Called Southern Confederacy.

A Private Soldiers Experience In Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen Blackshear And Florence By John Mcelroy Late Of Co. L. 16th Ill Cav.

We held a little council among ourselves as to the meaning of this, and concluded that some partial exchange had been agreed on, and the Rebels were going to send back the class of boys whom they thought would be of least value to the Government. Acting on this conclusion the great majority of us enrolled ourselves as foreigners, and as having served out our terms. I made out the roll of my hundred, and managed to give every man a foreign nativity. Those whose names would bear it were assigned to England, Ireland, Scotland France and Germany, and the balance were distributed through Canada and the West Indies. After finishing the roll and sending it out, I did not wonder that the Rebels believed the battles for the Union were fought by foreign mercenaries. The other rolls were made out in the same way, and I do not suppose that they showed five hundred native Americans in the Stockade.