They got under arms, and remained so until the enthusiasm became less demonstrative.
A few days later--on the evening of the 6th of September--the Rebel Sergeants who called the roll entered the Stockade, and each assembling his squads, addressed them as follows: "PRISONERS: I am instructed by General Winder to inform you that a general exchange has been agreed upon.

Twenty thousand men will be exchanged immediately at Savannah, where your vessels are now waiting for you.

Detachments from One to Ten will prepare to leave early to-morrow morning." The excitement that this news produced was simply indescribable.

I have seen men in every possible exigency that can confront men, and a large proportion viewed that which impended over them with at least outward composure.

The boys around me had endured all that we suffered with stoical firmness.