[Andersonville by John McElroy]@TWC D-Link bookAndersonville CHAPTER X 10/10
This could go on from day to day until all in each other's hands should be transferred to their respective flags. The five hundred sent with the General's letter were received, and five hundred Union prisoners returned for them.
Another five hundred, sent the next day, were refused, and so this reasonable and humane proposition ended in nothing. This was the condition of affairs in February, 1864, when the Rebel authorities concluded to send us to Andersonville.
If the reader will fix these facts in his minds I will explain other phases as they develop..
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