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Andersonville.

Thi Trcb iSroar or its Sickbniko Horkok ab Told ur ▲ Fiftekn Moxnu1 Prison be— The Con/bueracv'b Greatest Crime — Jkff. Davis's RssroNBibilitt tor Winder and Wirz. Andersonville was the colossal crime of tli e confederacy. . "The Hiatory of a Crime" far less J infamous and revolting, as told in the | burning periods of Hugo, occupies 500 j pages. Apd that record embraces only the occurrences of a few brief, eventful days. Amlereonville still waits for its Hugo, but when he shall appear if is now made certain that he will not lack for the materials already to his hand, j These are furnished in a volume just J published by D. R. Locke (Nasby) of Toledo. It is entitled "Andersonville: j A Story of Rebel Military Prisons.1 ' | Its author is John McEiroy, a private of company I, sixteenth Illinois cavalry,

T who vrns -cspiux^i %>y >i,u ,,l.u -wu. I serving in an expedition which set out from the Cumberland gap in the fall of 1£63 to open up Powell's valley as a source of supplies to our forces there and to Burnside's army in East Tennessee. I For 15 months he was held a prisoner, ! passing from Richmond to Andersonville, and being transferred successively j totlie rebel prisons of Savannah, Milieu, ; Blockshear and. Florence. Thi^ volnme ; Is the record of bis ex(u*rieitf$$v7n cap1 tivity, and ns ho passod;^i5pg!b&ater part | of the time in And0z*jjjvtuet the name I of that fatal prif0*^2riis its most fitting title. a 'po\n *tw • l 1k.ox. Wo shall bo surprised if this work does naf -uike more than a passing impression. It is the plain, unvarnished tale of an eye-witness. It lacks the soholarlv fl«*v<>r of Historian who sits | down and writes, in cold blood, a | hundred years after the events he describes transpired. We feel in every line the glowing pulse of a man who shared the suffering lie narrates, a*id me met on every page with the vivid and photographic recollection of details which only personal participation can give. This is the guarantee of the volume's voracity, and no man can read it through without feeling profoundly convinced that, shocking as are the ininutie of this huge horror, it was duer to the truth of history that they should thus be set down in cold type, to the end that the "noble army of martyrs" who w«re done to death in this slauglit-cr-liouae of secession shall hold their proper place in the grutitudeof prosj>erity. •v •

We have read many books of higher literary finish than this; many with more methodical arrangement; many with i greater pretensions to historical value; hut we fail to recall a work of such realistic power, so fearfully faithful a recital of the bare, naked, ungloesed story of a vast atrocity. It i» a voice straight from the ranks of that mournfill procession of captives whose cries of agony, despair and death went up in vain to the unpitying ears alike of the : confederate goyernincnt its statesmen, j its soldiers, and its jailers. Such a book | is a phenomenon in literature, not amenable to its usual canons; it is to the common book what the spcctaeula drama is to the common play— realistic from first to last, frill of strong colors, but all true to life, thrilling, impressive, and at times almost oppressive in the I terrible monotony of its all too truthful 1 delineation. In a couple of spirited chapters the narrator tells the story of the battle with ths rehals in which he, with so 1

• - has drawn battle J sosnet more ideally fine, but has never J made a more scrupulously true copy of * • W _ -•*<. „ mm m pho^gi..^ ..v>u, and the dark lines on the oanva*e,whiob, as a whole, is filled with high tragedy, are relieved by an occasional piece of low comedy, like this illustration of Greenback philosophy under the starv uud bar* TUB FUT DOCTRINE IK RICHMOND IK '04. The rebels exhausted their ingenuity in framing lawn to sustain the purchasing power of their paper money, and the law provided that any citiaen found trafficking in the money of the enemy — i. e. greenbacks, should suffer imprisonment in the penitentiary, and any soldier so offending should suffer death. Notwithstanding all this, there was not a da; during our stay in Richmond, but what one could go to the hole in the door before whioh the guard was pacing, and call out in a loud whisper: "Say, guard, do you want to buy some greenbacks?"

And be sure that the reply would be, after a furtive glance around to see that no officer was watching: "Yes; how much do you want for them ?" The reply was then: "Ten for one.1' ^ Jill right; how mach have you got ?" The Yankee would reply; the rebel • would walk to the further end of his beat count out the necessary amount, and, returning put up one hand with it, while the other he caught hold of one end of the Yankee's greenback. At the word, both would release their holds simultaneously, the exchange waa complete, and the rebel would pace industriously up and dow n his beat with the air of a school boy who "ain't been adoin' nothing." THE INTERIOR Or ANDERSONVILLE. Over the rails wo go with private Mc-

, _ Elrny . MMlinto th© fatal pen. of tkm i interior whereof we ar^next presented with a description: t "We found ourselves i An immense I pen, about 1,000 feet long by 800 wide, as a young surveyor— a member of the thirty-fourth Ohio— informed us after lie had ]wced it off. He estimated that it contained about 16 acres. The walls were formed by pine logs 25 feet long, from two to three feet in diameter, hewn square, set in the ground to a depth of five feet, and placed so close together as to leave no crack through which the country outside could • * - • - •. N . - .JgJ Hi -.-v, (,jyw. . •, J. .f course, 20 feet high. This manner of enclosure was in some respects superior to a wall of masonry. It was equally unscalable, and much more difficult to undmnine or batter down. "The pen was longest due north and south. It was divided in the centre by a creek about a yard wide and 10 inoheR deep, running from west to east. On each side of this was a quaking l>og of slimy oobo 150 feet wide, and so yielding that one attempting to walk upon it would sink to the waist. From this swamp the sandhills sloped north and south to the stoekade. All the trees inside the stockade, save two, had been cut down and used in its construction. All the rank vegetation of the swamp had also been cut off. "There were two entrances to the stockade, one on each side of the creek, midway between it and the enda, and called respectively the north gate and the south gate. These were constructed double, by building smaller stockades 7 f O "»«• ••

nround them on the outsido, with* another set of gates. ^Vhen prisoners or wagons with rations were brought inside the enter gates, which were carefully secured before tho inner gates were opefted. This was done to prevent the gates being carried by a rush by those confined inside. "At regular intervals along the palisades were little perches, upon which stood guards, who overlooked tho whole inside of the prison. "The only view we had of the outside was that obtained by looking from the highest points of the north or south sides across the depression where the stockade crossed the swamp. In this way *0 could see about 40 acres at a time of the adjoining woodland, or say 160 acres altogether, and this meagre landscape had to content us for the next half year." thi Con ildkr act's grand inquisitor — okn. juftn if. winder. Ond| inside toe stockade, it was not long before tho captive Union eoldiers

' " 1 ' t i * * M ^ssssaa^ had men ainoii^ .4 * capacity for cruelty not second to that of any grand inqiiialfcnn it* Spain. ' . ~v? aanuu* *~^a few day# after our arrival, an old man whose oollar bore the wreathed stars of a n^jor-genyrai. Heavy white looks fell from beneath his slouched hat nearly to his shoulders. Sunken gray eyes, too dull and cold to light up, marked a hard, stony faoe, the sahent lectures of which was a thin lipped, compressed mouth, with corners drawn down deeply — the mouth which seems the world over to be the index of selfish, cruel, sulky malignance. It b such a mouth as has the schoolboy, the coward of the play ground, who delights in pulling off the wings of flies. The rider was John H. Winder, commissary general of prisoners, Baltimorean renegade and the malign genius to whose account should be charged the deaths of more gallant men than all the inquisitors of the world ever slew by the lees dreadful rack and wheel: It was he who in

August could point to the 3,081 newmade graves for that month and exultingly tell his hearers dial he was 'doing more for tho confederacy, than 20 regiments.1 His lineage was in accordance with his character. Ub father was that Gen. William H. Winder whose poltroonery at Bladensburg, in 1814, nullified the resistance of the gallant Commodore Barney, and gave Washington to the British. "Winder gazed at us stonily for a few minutes without speaking, and, turning, rode out again. Our troubles, from that hour, rapidly increased." , scaling THE stockade — THE dead link. Not the least thrilling pages in thb startling volume are those in which tho author tells of the many efforts to escape by scaling the stockade, or tunneling under it, most of them ending in

r ikis i\A — I "On a night dark enough to favor our scheme we gathered together, drew cuts i to determine each boy's plaoo in the 1 line, fell in single rank, according to thb arrangement, and marched to the place. The line was thrown skillfully, the stick caught fairly in the notch, and the boy who had drawn number one climbed up amid a suspense so keen that I could hear my heart beating. It seemed ages before he reached the top and that tho noise he made must certainly attract tho attention of the guard. It did not. We saw ' T4 ... •» . • . as he • a heard the dull thump as ho sprang to the ground on the other side. 'Number two,1 was whispered by our leader, and he performed the feat as suocessftilly oh his predecessor)*. 'N umber three,' and he followed noiselessly ana quickly. Thus it went on, until just as we heard number 15 drop, we also heard a rebel voice say in a vicious undertone: " 'Halt I halt, there d n you I1 "This was enough. The game was up ; wo wore discovered, and the remaining 35 of us loft that locality with all the speed in our heels, getting away just in time to escape a volley which a squad of guards, posted in the lookouts, poured u]>on the spot where we had been . standing. "The next morning the 15 who had got over the stockade were brought in, each chained to a 64-pound ball." The result of thb vain blow for feedoin i was the establishment of the notorious i "dead line." The first man was killed 1 the morning after the line of stakes

which formed the fatol line were driven down. The victim was a German, whom the prisoner* had nicknamed "Sigel." Hardship and exposure had erased him, and iuduoed a severe attack of 8t. Vituf's dance. As he hobbled around the enclosure, grinning vacuously, he kpied an old piece of cloth lying on the ground inside tbe "dead line." He stoopod down and reached under for it. On the instant one of the lookout men on tho perches around the stockade fired, and a charge of ball-and-buck tore through the jnxjt fellow 'a body and killed him on tho spot." CATV. nr.NRi vim. Another striking portrait it that of Oapt. Henri Win, tho one solitary man of all the torturer* of Andevtotiville who afterwards expiated hb shore in the dark deeds of Andersonville on the scaffold. "<>nc morning a new rebel officer camo in to superintend calling the roll, lie was an undersized, fidgety man, with an insignificant (lace, and a mouth that

— * littla ejm, Ilk* tho** of * squirrel or » rat, M*i«t«d in firing hi* ooufiteiwn** « look of kiwliij. to tL* iftmily of rodent onin»kr-*f«.u»w|uck UrwbyrtotlUi and cunnina. m. o.., -uul w " €• turn, hsku it QM .tool awajr from «tron« m end brtver creature*. Re m dreated in » p*ir of gnj trouaer*, with the other pert of hb body oot irsd with a garment, like thai which small boys used to wear, called ' waist* " Thb waa fastened to the pantaloons if buttons, garments of boys straggling with the orthography of words in two syllables. Upon hb head was perched a little gray oap. Sticking in hb belt, and faet*aed to hb wrist by satrap two or three feet long, was one of those formidable looking, bat harmless English revolvers, that have 10 barrels around the odge of the cylinder, and flae a musket ball from the centre. The wearer of thb composite costume, and bearer of this amateur arsenal, stepped nervously about and sputtered volubly in very broken English. > i

i#Thb was Oapt. Henri Iflrt, the new commandant of the interior ef the prison. He b usually regarded at a rilhun of large mental calibre, and with a genius for cruelty. He was ^tothin g of the kind. HU cruelty did not seem designed to much as the conditions of a peevish, snarling little temper, united to a mind incapable of conceiving the results of hb acts, or understanding the pain ho was inflecting." tun nx lino fob liberty — tex bounds. Tunneling was one of the most frequent methods of attempting escape. It was undertaken by parties. "The starting point of a tunnel was always some tent dose to the dead line, and sufficiently well closed to screen the operations from the sight of the guards near by. The party engaged in th6 work organized by giving every man a number to secure the proper apportiona. _ * a.1 u_x a w a

4— wi> mt ■ ImI im. Vmm— V m |^i mgit * digging with hb half canteen. After i he had worked until tired he came out, and number two took hb place, and so on. The tunnel was simply a round, rat-like burrow, a little larger than a m&n'B body. The digger lay on hb stomach, dug ahead of him, threw tho dirt under bimf and worked it back with hb feet till the man behind himy also laying on hb stomach, could catch it and work it back to the next. As the tunnel lengthened, the number of men behind eacn other in this way had to be increased, so that in a tunnel 75 n ^ a lying ^ When the dirt was pushed back to the mouth of the tunnel it was taken up m improvised bags, made by tying up the bottoms of pantaloon legs, carried to ike sjramn, xnd emptied." It the tunnol were carried beyond the stockade, there were the hounds to be coped with, as soon as the break became known. It seems incredible, but thb book refreshes our recollection that, only 16 years ago, Northern men, sons and brothers from many a fair New England and western borne, were being tracked through Georgia's swamps by the same cruel bloodhounds with which our southern brother — tho samo .man who talked to us so pleasantly at the "extra session" — chased hb chattel blave. Says the author, "Each pack was managed by a wellarmed man,* who rode a ramie, and carried, slung over hb shoulders by a cord, a cow horn, scraj>ed very thin, with which he controlled the band by signals. « "What always puzzled me much was — ^ - j- »»v miuvu pn

why the hounds took only Yankee trail*, in the vicinity of the prison. There was about the stockado from 6,000 to 10,000 rebels and negroes, including guards, officers, son ants, workmen, etc. These were, of course, continually in motion and must have daily made trails leading in every direction. It was the custom of tbe rebels to send a pack ef bounds around the prison every morning, to examine if any of the Yankees bad escaped dnring the night. It was believed that they rarely failed to find a prisoner's tracks, and still more rarely ran off upon a rebel's. If those outside the stockade had been confined to certain paths and roads we could have understood this, but, as I understand, they were not. It war part of the in t crests of the day tor us to watch the packs go yetp&ng around the pen searching for tracks. We got information in thb way whether an)' tunnels hadUQcn successfully opened during the night\ "The use of hounds famished us » 0>uUum©d on Um fourth rag*