Wounded men are
taken out from among us to be sent back. All windows are ordered closed. Owing
to this order two of our fellows rigged up a skeleton dummy and dressed in blue
and a cap which they stood at the window. Soon after it was fired upon, and an
hour later it was poked up at another window and two guns banged at it. Soon
after they swung it up at another window. Two more Rebel guns burned powder.
Every time the glass was scattered over the room to the annoyance of men, but
when they growled the fellows yelled out we have got to have air. This time a
sergeant and several guards with bayonetted guns came up to look after the dead
and wounded, but found none. The boys dissected their artificial Yankee and the
event was a mystery to Rebels until in the afternoon at a later performance,
the trick was discovered by a man posted on the stairway and an officer of the
prison came up and vented his wrath very savagely, but did not find the fellows
who had fooled them.
SOURCE: John Worrell
Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville
and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, p. 47
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