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Title: History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Prowell, George Reeser, 1849-1928
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 87th (1861-1865)
Publisher: York, Pa., Press of the York daily
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d up before Captain Wirz who said,Now Yanks, if there are any among you who can read andwrite, such men can take charge of the squads of 90 men. We come from a free country, where there are free schools.Every one of us can read and write, quickly answered one ofthem. Michael Heiman, of Company B, was one of the few prison-ers who managed to get to Andersonville with money. He wasable to buy things to eat with it from the guards until it was allgone. Corporal William T. Ziegler, of Company F on the day ofhis arrival at Andersonville, met David G. Myers, of hiscompany, who had been in prison since his caoture at the battleof the Wilderness, May 7, 1864. He found Myers sick andemaciated, with no shoes and his clothes were all tattered andtorn. The Corporal sat down on the ground, pulled off his ownshoes and stockings and gave them to his sick comrade whocheered up for awhile after the arrival of his former compan- — 241 — ion in arms, but died at Andersonville, two months later. Cor-
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— 242 — ■Provid€nce Spring was a boon to the thirty thousand pris-oners in Andersonville. Shortly after heavy rains had fallen,a stream of pure cold water, gushed from the ground near thenorthern border of the prison, during the hot days of AugustJ2th and 13th. The men were at first required to form in line,.and march in order with their tin cups to this fountain of life.No flankers were permitted to move up on the right or the left.Jt was soon found, however, that the flow of water was perma-nent and the supply sufficient for all the prisoners. This spring.has ever since continued to flow, and has been surrounded by;a wall by the owner of the grounds. After the capture of Atlanta by Shermans army, a large num-ber of the prisoners were moved to Florence, South Carolina.Most of the men of the 87th Regiment were kept at Anderson-ville until October, when with 9,000 others, they were takenin cars to Millen, Georgia. At this place they were put in a■new stockade and formed in di

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