A hundred or so of these would probably have saved thousands of lives at Andersonville and Florence.
A large tree lay on the ground assigned to our hundred.

Andrews and I took possession of one side of the ten feet nearest the butt.

Other boys occupied the rest in a similar manner.

One of our boys had succeeded in smuggling an ax in with him, and we kept it in constant use day and night, each group borrowing it for an hour or so at a time.

It was as dull as a hoe, and we were very weak, so that it was slow work "niggering off"-- (as the boys termed it) a cut of the log.