This extract shows that the Furry's have also taken an active part in our Civil War.
W. J. Furry, Seventh Term, was one of the last to leave Andersonville. He and his comrades fell in line facing the gate and were marched to the railroad where they were piled on an old train and run up to Macon, Ga. They were not taken from the train, but run back over the road, passing within sight of the walls of Andersonville to the end of the railroad at Albany. From there they were marched to Thomasville, a distance of fifty miles. They must have presented a striking appearance with their tattered rags, filth and weakness. Most of them were without shoes. Comrade Furry carried the meals which he had drawn for rations, in an old pants leg. From Thomasville they took a train for about 75 miles to Lake City, Florida, where they were kept about a week and then shifted to Baldwin. Here they were dumped in the pine forest after which they were left free and told to make their way, as best they could, to Jacksonville, Florida, where the union lines were. The last of the mournful parade of living skeletons arrived at Jacksonville as the twelve o'clock gun was fired. Furry himself weighed but 94 pounds, and he was a good specimen of the thirteen hundred.
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