[Andersonville Volume 2 by John McElroy]@TWC D-Link bookAndersonville Volume 2 CHAPTER XL 36/36
Some of them had lots of bullet holes in them.
But I saw a beautiful, nice looking silver bugle hanging off to one side a little. 'I Thinks,' says I, 'I'll just take that little toot horn in out of the wet, and take it back to camp.' I was just reaching up after it when I heard some one say, "'Halt!' and I'll be dog-Boned if there wasn't two of the meanest looking Rebels, standing not ten feet from me, with their guns cocked and pointed at me, and, of course, I knew I was a goner; they walked me back about one hundred and fifty yards, where their picket line was.
From there I was kept going for an hour or two until we got over to a place on the railroad called East Point.
There I got in with a big crowd of our prisoners, who were taken the day before, and we have been fooling along in a lot of old cattle cars getting down here ever since. "So this is 'Andersonville,' is it! Well, by -- -!".
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