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Andersonville
Volume 3

CHAPTER LIII
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As he came into the prison gate Lieutenant Davis was standing near.

He looked sternly at Frank and his Rebel garments, and muttering, "By God, I'll stop this!" caught the coat by the tails, tore it to the collar, and took it and his hat away from Frank.
There was a strange sequel to this episode.

A few weeks afterward a special exchange for ten thousand was made, and Frank succeeded in being included in this.

He was given the usual furlough from the paroled camp at Annapolis, and went to his home in a little town near Mansfield, O.
One day while on the cars going--I think to Newark, O., he saw Lieutenant Davis on the train, in citizens' clothes.

He had been sent by the Rebel Government to Canada with dispatches relating to some of the raids then harassing our Northern borders.


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