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WAR SI .A. Story of Atlanta As a contributor to thc columns of Close Calls I will give your readers 80IUC rcminiscenses of events of my prison life, from thc time of uiy cap ture, at the fall of Kort (iregg, on April 2, 1803, until I reached home on the night of .July ?J following. Though I write from memory, it is a memory kept green by oft rehearsals to old soldiers as we would sometimes meet and discuss or relate tho stirring incidents of the war. Some events, as I will tell them, may seem incredible, when contrasted with the boasted civilization and Christian spirit of the American peo ple. But what I will write is literally true, except some minor points per haps that would be immaterial. Some of the incidents aro indeed close calls and blood curdling, and this, too, after hostilities hud scaned, aud < ?en er?is Lee and Jo.'.aston had capitu lated. Hut this dark cloud of bru tality and barbaric depravity and sa- ' tallie meanness of one man in authori ty over us has a silver lining in thc considerate and ofttimes gentle treat ment accorded us by our captors. I shrink from reporting the cruel treat ment meted out to us as prisoners by one inhuman wretch, while it is a real pleasure to chronicle the gentle and considerate treatment by many of our captors, and I will add, that wc did not expect to be fed upon sugar plums, or recline upon downy beds. After these prefatory remarks I will htuia my story. Immediately after Oeing taken prisoners wc were maroh od under guard, across to the enemy's lines, at thc terminus of General Grant's railroad from City Point, just in the rear of his Hues around Peters burg. Here we saw the unlimited re sources of our enemy, in thousands of troops, with arms staoked, held in re serve, while we were pressed with odds of at least four to one; also great piles of meat, barrels of flour, sacks of eora, bales of hay, etc, that looked like mountains to a famished Confed erate. I saw thc futility of further resistance on our ?part. At sundown we were marched, with a complete line of soldiers encircling us, to City Point, on the James river. Early next morning, April 3, we em barked upon an ooean steamer and landed at Point Lookout, north of the mouth of the Potomac river, and lodged in prison. Here we found twenty thousand prisoners, quartered in small tents upon fifteen acres of land, and only four wells to water this vast host, the water was practically exhausted by 4 o'clock p. m. of eaoh day, and at nightfall I have seen 500 prisoners around eaoh well, a pitiful ?iaori serambiiug for water. This listed until 8 o'clock, when tattoo was beaten, when the thirsty crowds must disperse or be fired upon by the negro guards sometimes on duty. The Yankees explained that the prison was overrun by the great influx of prisoners from Petersburg. Our fare consisted of a piece of codfish about the size of three fingers and a slice of loaf bread one inoh thick for each meal; except Thursday for din ner wo got bean soup in a tin cup, with hardly an eye of grease and con taining about one half dozen beans, which could be distinctly seen in tho bottom of the cup. This was a luxury here. I will have to pass so muoh detail to compass the limits of a newspaper ar ticle. The prison at Pt. Lookout resem bled a miniature world, commercially, containing many Confederate sutlers, who bought from a Yankee sutler, just outside the prison walls, through a windon about one foot square, and resold to other prisoners, who got money by making all manner of trink ets, such as finger rings, watch chains, etc., and selling for fabulous prices to excursion parties of ladies and gent^ men from Washington, I). C., Balti more, etc., who were eager to buy as trophies anything made by a rebel prisoner. Indeed there was a Confederate prisoner, taken at the first battle of Manassas, who waa still in prison when I got there, and who bad sold his name for exchange three times for twenty-five hundred dollars " total. The parties purchasing going out of prison upon his nume and he remain ing in prison under their name each time. This was purely a business transaction with him. Ho was thc only big Confederate sutler in prison; his shop was about 15 feet square, as I saw it, and built entirely of cracker boxeB, counters, shelves aud all. His exohaoge sales, together with his profits as sutler, footed up at the end ol' t&si war to about $?,000, made olearia prison. Ho had an eye to tasines-.. After remaining in the regular pris on in charge of Maj ir Brady for a week, I procured a transfer to the TORIES. IPrison Life. Journal. hospital camp in charge of Dr. Vogal, of New York, assisted by my old friends, Tootnbs Callara, of Lincoln county. I found this camp a heaven compared with thc other. Thc sick nnd wounded under charge of Dr. Vogal, a humane and exemplary gen tleman, were well fed and cared for iu every respect, and he governed his camp with leniency and was loved by all. I belonged to a detail to flush the sewer ditches around hospital rooms with water every morning. This only took one-half hour. Then my old friend Cullars and myself spent tho balance of thc day making trinkets and selling .name to said ?.x crsion parties and earning for a day's work from eight to ten dollars every day. Our lure was beef, loaf bread, vegetables and lemonade, just as thc sick got. The Yankees allowed two minstrel troupes, gotten up entirely by the prisoners, that gave performances once a week each. Tuesday aud Thursday nights. They dressed beardless in ladies apparel, had nice uniforms all around, and gave splendid perfor mances, cracking many witty jokes on Yankees, which were very much en joyed by thc Yankee officers, who at tended in a body every night, special teats being reserved for them. Cul lars and myself with many other pris oners, attended also every night. The performances were splendid, mu sic and all. It was a great relief to the monotony of prison life. The Yankees furnished tho house for tho iuintrcls gratis. Cullars and myself also bought a fiddle, whittled and made out of a ciuckct boa, by a prisoner with his pocket knife. We bought strings from thc Yankee sutler who kept almost everything or would order it. With this fiddle wc had a deal of fun. We would lay off work from our trin j ket business late in tho evening and with our fiddle in hand (for wo were both country fiddlers) we would get out of our tent and strike up a qua drille and have a regular stag danoo by thc prisoners. After and in addi tion to this, we had employed an old phrenologist, who was a good talker, at a dollar a day, to give phrenologi cal examinations of heads and read character by the science of phrenology. This performance was freo to any one who would submit to an examination. And with the fiddle and our scientist we had muoh fun. My article is too long. I must pass from incidents of prison, which con stituted the silver lining to my oloud of prison lifo and relate my ooean voy age from Point Lookout to Savannah, Ga., and to home, but in this voyage I am alone, or at least my old friend Cullars ia absent. He having received his parolo before I did. As his name began with C and mino with 8 alpha betically arranged Let me add here that the regular prison was the dirti est and filthiest place it ever fell my lot to livo in; dirtand vermin abound ed, the prisoners had no chango of clothing and it waa impossible to keep clean though we wero allowed to bathe in the Chesapeake Bay. Let me add before passing, that I saw Masonic finger rings, made of guttapercha, in laid with Masonic implements of gold plate, readily bring 25 dollars, of course in greenbacks. These rings were beautifully carved and made by prisoners who wero professional jew elers at home. The ingenuity dis played by Southern prisoners in trin ket work was simply wonderful and exploded thc idea that Amerioan in genuity belonged only to Yankees. The confinement of one in prison had about thc same effect upon his me chanical genius as thc confinement of tho other by the Northern winters' snow. But yet btfore passing out of prison, candor compels me in making a true report of prison life, to enrom?le tho fact that all of the baser traits of hu man character were exemplified by some prisoners, under the sore temp tations and privations of prison life. They would lie, swindlo and steal the scant rations from fellow prisoners in the most adroit way, and do many de grading things that would bring a blush of shame to their comrado's cheeks. Space forbids mentioning these things, many, including mode of punishment by the priBoners them selves, are debarred from print. But Mr. Editor you will condemn this ar tiole because of longth, I pass to thc ooean voyago. I embarked with a ship load of prisoners at the wharf at Pt. Lookout, just at sundown about the 6th of June, 1865, upon an old condemned ocean steamer, now en gaged in the U. S. Mail scrvioe along the South Atlantio coast. We reach ed Fortress Monroe early next morn ing, where we were allowed to land and remain rbout six hours. Presi dent Davis waa confined here in prison I at that time. I attempted to get per mission from (Jen. Miles to visit him io his cell, but failed; I, however, saw the low flat house in which he was confined. It had a hallway with small rooms on each side. Mr. Davis was in the first right hand corner room. Two sentinels guarded the half door outside, two oilers guarded the door leading from hall to room. And I learned there wero yet two others in room with Mr. Davis. This riled and humiliated mc more than my own im prisonment, but I could only sulk. From Fortrcsu Mooroo wc steamed to Norfolk, Va., where all of our cargo of prisoners, who could reach their homes from this place, were allowed to get off, aud we had ouly about 25 paroled prisoners left to go south. 1 use tho word cargo because wc were forced to remain in thc hull of thc ship and upon thc same floor with thc steam boiler that propelled the vessel. The air was very hot and close, with no means to ventilate, ex cept through a hatch or trap door, by which also we reached the upper deck by means of a ladder. Thus confined with our heads even below the surface of water, in our apartment, hot, dark, dreary and dirty, our voyage south was uneventful aud we passed our time dreaming of home and loved ones and tho horrors of war. In this doleful condition, weary and haggard, with naught, but a dirty floor to wallow upon, and unable to keep time in this dungeon, a now and terrible horror confronts us. Thc steam boiler upon the same floor with us had cracked under the steam pressure, and the escaping steam, with a frightful hissing noise, almost instantly filled the old hull densely with hot steam from boiling water and no way to escape but through thc hatch door. This ordeal was almost unbearable, and especially so when most of our boys were sick ot wounded. We huddled immediately under the hatch door to get the fresh air that descended by side of the escaping steam. Under this ordeal almost to the point of suffocation, oni of our boys climbed up tho ladder t( tue top deck aud sprawled upon th< floor. The mau had oue leg cut of near the kip joint, but could hop lik< a jay bird where he pleased withou crutch or stick. I afterwards learnei bis name was McGee, from Andersoi County, S. C. Ile was tall, athleti in build, weighed about 175 pounds erect as an Indian, a very intelligen face and about twenty-five years ol and as brave as a lion. He was no allowed, however, at this time to en joy the invigorating sea breeze afte the steam bath in the old hull. Fo the captain in charge of the vessel o this trip (whom we learned was nc the regular oaptain) immediately oi dered him back into the hull. H oame, but quickly organized a aqua of seven prisoners, with himself, t climb to tbe upper deok with the d< termination to hold it at all hazardi emphasizing that not to do so wool subject us to a horrible death by steal and brand us the meanest of eowardi Really, only the seven were able i go. Our men were nearly all siol coming from the hospital oamp, ac only the stoutest could stand th furnaoe. We again olimbed the ladder, M Gee leading the way and assuming a command. Re was the man for tl occasion, notwithstanding he had bi one leg. Reaching the top deok we sprawl? upon the floor. Not more than twe ty feet from us sat the old oaptain i in the little pilot house with glass hand, scanning the watery horizon f some passing ship that he might si nal for help, for his bursted boil rendered him unable to turn a wh< and placed him at the mercy of t winds. To us, or at least to me, it seom that we had been transported t( new world, tho invigorating ooe breeze was most delightful. Weloc ed around and practically wo were mid ocean, for there was no land sight at all. Our eyes beheld, onlj vast expanse of water. We a learned afterwards that we were thc coast of Capo Hatteras, rook bou and dangerous. Imagine oupfeelio if you can, being thus suddenly pla< in mid ocean for tho first time. Th were some of the thoughts that dar across our minds in a few momen time. For it seemed we bad o sprawled upon the deck when tho oaptain with knitted eyebrows perei torily ordered us baok into the hi In the meantime tho white steam ing like a piece of solid maso through tho hatch door just in front our eyes and tho eyes of the captt To this order McGee remonstrat calling the captain's attention to issuing steam, to the condition of sick men below, etc. To all of wh this inhuman wretch gave no he but ringing a little bell for an err boj\. we easily heard him send or< to a sergeant to report to him at o with six soldiers, loaded guns and ed bayonets. He oontinned to 1 with his glass for a passing ship. MoOee was on the alert; jumj up, he said: "Boys, you hear tl It means we must fight or go b If there is one with a faint heart wishes to go baok under tho oiro Stances, let him go now." No one moved. Ile next put the motion: "All io favor of staying and braving all dangers, stand up?" All stood up. He next inquired who had pocket knives. All had something of the kind. He next ordered us to form line across the deck, with open knives, he, himself, taking tho central position, with three men on each side. The soldiers not yet having come, for we worked fast. McGee took this vote: "All who are yet determined to stand the consequences, bo it death, rather than skulk back into that old hull, like cowards, hold up your right hands.'* Every hand, with open knife, shot up. AH of this enacted in thc imme diate presence of the captain. Now, wc sec thc soldiers coming, in single file, led by the sergeant. Upon reaching thc captain, he orders tho sergeant to put those men back into thc hull of tho ship, at thc point of thc bayonet if necessary. Justas the sergeant lined up his men, facing us, McGee hopped about four feet in front of our line, and ad dressed the soldiers in the most elo quent speech I ever heard. He called their attention to the hot steam, to thc pick men down in thc hull. Ap pealed to their humanity; begged them not to attempt to enforce the or ders of that inhuman wretch, pointing his finger at the old captain, but add ed, "If you will and fail to kill us at first fire, will cut you to pieces with our knives." Then facing the captain, with his fist clinched, said to him: "Yes, d-n you, we will limb you, limb by limb." Having thus spoken, he wheeled end hopped back in line, as if to say, "Now do quickly what you are going to do." A momentous silence prevailed just now, each line looking steadfastly at the other. McGee had plaoed the ini tiative upon the Federals; they moved not; But, at last, the old captais quaked and ordered the soldiers back. We", ad won tue victory and thc deck \ as ours. We assisted all thc sick, v io were able to olimb at ali, t( the upper deck. But we found sev eral who were not able to climb at all, and we had to carry them, faint anc limp, up the ladder. Yea, three ol them were dead when we reached th< upper deck, and we committed theil dead bodies to the yielding waters o! the vast deep, in plain view of the oh captain, who was responsible for thei: death. We drifted, as I now remember about three days off the coast of Cap Hatteras, when we were taken in to\ by a tug boat and towed first to Bean fort and then to Wilmington, N. C, for necessary repairs, which consume* nearly two weeks, when we again se sail for Charleston and Savannah. Most of our remaining boys wen home from Wilmington. McGee mun have left us there, aa I saw no mot of him. I sa ir but little of him, anj way, after the incident at sea. *her was so muoh confusion. Amity, Ga., Oot. 12. - You can never tell what a woma in love or a balky horse will do nexi Ile Got bl? Ride. There is an amusing story told ia North Georgia about the original of the moonshiner in "Abner Daniel," Will N. Br.iben's new novel (Har pers). The man was arrested for moonshinisg by a friend who had just been taken into the revenue service, and together the two started for At lanta, where the prisoner was to be put in jail. Reaohing the .?ilro&d station they found there was no train till midnight, so they spent the day drinking sooiably together, and by nightfall the officer was past locomo tion and asleep at tho village depot, Seeing the situation somo practioal jokers approached the moonshiner and advised him to make a break for liber ty. To their surprise he refused. "To tell you the truth, boys," he said, sheepishly, "I hain't never had a good ride on the cyars, an' I've sor ter made, up my mind to make this trip." They let him havo his way, and saw him eagerly rouse his friend when tho train approached. About two da;9 later be turned up in the village. His arm was in a sling, his face was badly bruised, and he looked as if he had walked a long distance. 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