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you are a big fool/’ said he, and with that he swung
around on his heel and was of? as quickly as he had
come. One word more about myself and it will be the
last one. [t did seem foolish for a corporal to refuse
a captaincy, but considering that within six months the
Eleventh Mississippi was entirely decimated in battle
and nearly all the officers put to the sword, I perhaps
took a lucky choice, after all. Had I accepted I would
probably not be sitting here today jotting down my
recollections of General Stolbrand.
In the fall of this same year, 1863, the different
commands that composed General Grant’s army at
Vicksburg were somewhat broken up and sent in different
directions. Our battery at that time, known as
Sparre-strom’s battery, was sent up the river to join General
Smith’s corps at Columbus, Ky., and I never saw
Stolbrand again, but I kept myself as well posted as
possible as to his career. lie was sent with Logan and
his forces to join General Sherman’s army in
Tennessee and Alabama and in time became chief of artillerv
on General Sherman’s staff. It was during this time,
T am informed, he was taken prisoner and brought to
that bell-bole known as Andersonville Prison. How a
man of his temperament must have chafed and fretted
there, we can all understand; and, therefore, it is not
strange that he there performed one of his most
daring deeds, as I am credibly informed. In an attempt
to escape he got over the "dond line,” but was
recaptured. He must have giveu Captain Wirz. the
commander of the prison, great anxiety. But hold
Stolbrand he could not. This restless spirit that knew no
fear planned another escape, and succeeded. Sleeping
at night in the huts of the ever loyal negroes, follow-
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