Prison Life in Andersonville

nd of the old long metre doxology was heard from the voices of a group of men gathered around the solitary pine stump in the enclosure, which was situated at the end of the north street of the p

r over the remains of some deceased comrade, and now he led in

other Shepard in substance: "I have today read in the book of Numbers of Moses striking the rock from which water gushed out for the ample supply of man and beast. I tell you God must strike a rock i

from Chicago pray?" He then successively called on other acquaintances, distinguishing them by

ader were, "Boys, when you awake during the night offer to God a little prayer for water. D

and collective petitions were steadfastly of

ain so long in this unsafe condition. Was it a coincidence that after prayer began to be offered the quartermaster of the prison notified Capt. Wirtz that stockade timbers were out of line and should be set right? He was ordered to take a gang of slaves and make t

veled against the timbers. Another set followed with heavy rammers and pounded the whole into a smooth, sloping surface which was tamped closely to the base of the wooden wall, making a perfect watershed, and

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