Al described the camp and deadline at Andersonville in his memoir, “The prison covered fifteen acres of ground enclosed by a high stockade of hewed pine logs, twelve feet above ground and six beneath; closely guarded by numerous sentinels who stood in elevated boxes overlooking the camp. In the center of the camp was a swamp occupying three or four acres. Along the edge of the swamp from one side of the camp to the other ran a little shallow brook, three or four feet wide. This, with a few small springs, furnished the water. No shelter was provided to us by the Rebels. We were exposed to the scorching rays of the sun and the pouring rain. The horrors of Andersonville are beyond description or imagination. The dead-line was a slender railing all around the inside of the stockade and about a rod from it. The men who crossed over or under this, whether ignorantly done or not, met with instant death from the vigilant sentinels." [taken from book DRUMMER BOY OF COMPANY C by Mary Louise Clifford]
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