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Andersonville
Volume 1

CHAPTER XV
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The roads were built as through lines, to bring to the seaboard the rich products of the interior.
Andersonville is one of the few stations dignified with a same, probably because it contained some half dozen of shabby houses, whereas at the others there was usually nothing more than a mere open shed, to shelter goods and travelers.

It is on a rudely constructed, rickety railroad, that runs from Macon to Albany, the head of navigation on the Flint River, which is, one hundred and six miles from Macon, and two hundred and fifty from the Gulf of Mexico.

Andersonville is about sixty miles from Macon, and, consequently, about three hundred miles from the Gulf.
The camp was merely a hole cut in the wilderness.

It was as remote a point from, our armies, as they then lay, as the Southern Confederacy could give.


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