CHAPTER LV.
WHY WE WERE HURRIED OUT OF ANDERSONVILLE--THE OF THE FALL OF ATLANTA -- OUR LONGING TO HEAR THE NEWS--ARRIVAL OF SOME FRESH FISH--HOW WE KNEW THEY WERE WESTERN BOYS--DIFFERENCE IN THE APPEARANCE OF THE SOLDIERS OF THE TWO ARMIES.
The reason of our being hurried out of Andersonville under the false pretext of exchange dawned on us before we had been in Savannah long.
If the reader will consult the map of Georgia he will understand this, too.

Let him remember that several of the railroads which now appear were not built then.

The road upon which Andersonville is situated was about one hundred and twenty miles long, reaching from Macon to Americus, Andersonville being about midway between these two.

It had no connections anywhere except at Macon, and it was hundreds of miles across the country from Andersonville to any other road.

When Atlanta fell it brought our folks to within sixty miles of Macon, and any day they were liable to make a forward movement, which would capture that place, and have us where we could be retaken with ease.
There was nothing left undone to rouse the apprehensions of the Rebels in that direction.