[Andersonville Volume 4 by John McElroy]@TWC D-Link bookAndersonville Volume 4 CHAPTER LXXV 25/26
Some nights we could not travel on account of its being cloudy and raining.
There is not money enough in the United States to induce me to undertake the trip again under the same circumstances. Our friend Clipson, that made his escape when we did, got very nearly through to our lines, but was taken sick, and had to give himself up. He was taken back to Andersonville and kept until the next Spring, when he came through all right.
There were sixty-one of Company K captured at Jonesville, and I think there was only seventeen lived through those horrible prisons. You have given the best description of prison life that I have ever seen written.
The only trouble is that it cannot be portrayed so that persons can realize the suffering and abuse that our soldiers endured in those prison hells.
Your statements are all correct in regard to the treatment that we received, and all those scenes you have depicted are as vivid in my mind today as if they had only occurred yesterday.
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