Mr.Frederick Holliger, now of Toledo, formerly a member of the Seventy-Second Ohio, and captured at Guntown, tells me, as his introduction to Andersonville life, that a few hours after his entry he went to the brook to get a drink, reached out too far, and was fired upon by the guard, who missed him, but killed another man and wounded a second.

The other prisoners standing near then attacked him, and beat him nearly to death, for having drawn the fire of the guard.
Nothing could be more inexcusable than these murders.

Whatever defense there might be for firing on men who touched the Dead Line in other parts of the prison, there could be none here.

The men had no intention of escaping; they had no designs upon the Stockade; they were not leading any party to assail it.

They were in every instance killed in the act of reaching out with their cups to dip up a little water..