Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — A Priest at Andersonville. [ARTICLE]

A Priest at Andersonville.

The only authorized representative of the Christian religion who possessed enough of it to visit the thirty thousand men in the prison pen w 6B a Roman Catholic priest, Father Hamilton, who came in quite regularly, at least every Sabbath, for several weeks. Ho talked kindly to us, displaying much sympathy for our condition, and administering the last rites of the church to all the dying men who would accept, without any regard to individual beliefs. He stated that strong efforts were being made to bring about an exchange by both the North and South, and that their efforts-would probably soonjbe successful. Upon the strength of this report we concluded to let our tunnel remain quiet for the time, thinking that if exchange failed wo could have final recourse to it. The exchange did fail; and a heavy thunder shower loosened one of the timbers of which the stockade was composed, so that it settled into the shaft, discovering to the authorities our tunnel, and they quickly filled it up.