Via Billy
Though Daniel Robinson Alexander Campbell Hundley opposed secession, the Madison County native carved venomous words against Abraham Lincoln and other Yankees throughout much of his Civil War diary.
Hard to blame him considering the pain Northerners inflicted upon him.
They declared him an outlaw and seized his property in Chicago, simply for being a Southerner. They also shot him in the hip at the battle of Port Gibson. And after capturing him at Big Shanty, Ga., in 1864, they let him rot in a prison camp where rats were a dinner delicacy.
The deep despondency Hundley felt from the toll the war had taken on him and his homeland was evident before he ever entered the Johnson Island Prison Camp on Lake Erie.
“The old life is gone, its warm Southern heart had ceased to beat, and
one beheld now only its galvanized corpse, making believe that it still
breathed and moved and had a continued being, a ghastly spectacle ...”
is how Hundley described Nashville as his prison trained passed through
Tennessee.
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