er to his wife in Macedonia, Carroll Co: "I saw some of our Huntingdon Union Friends footeling it the other Day towards Dici. One certain old man John Britt and several other I new, Citizens they all were. I was sorry for them, it looked evil to march men off from their Homes in that way even if they was Union. Old Johnny Britt looked pitiful." John Britt was a Huntingdon merchant who had three sons in the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA. At least one of these sons was with the Union City prisoners. Crutchfield's letter also mentioned that he had heard that Isaac Hawkins' men were safe at Mobile, Alabama. This was indeed where they had been taken. Presumably the men walked until they intersected the Mobile and Ohio Railroad somewhere near Tupelo, Mississippi. On the way to Mobile, two men died of Pneumonia and a rebel guard accidentally shot one prisoner in the abdomen at Okalona, Mississippi. When they reach Mobile they were placed in a warehouse. Private Isaac Davenport, from Scotts' Hill in Henderson County, later described the place as "a cotton shed where the fleas and body lice sucked some of the very life blood out" of them and where they were much too "numbered" for the space. Ten men died in Mobile. Davenport had to leave his dying brother-in-law, Sam McCollum, when orders came to ship out. The prisoners left Mobile by steamer about April 17 for Tensaw, Alabama. Leaving Tensaw on the 18th, they left by rail on the Mobile and Great Northern Railroad for Pollard. Camping there for the night, they would then have needed to change to the Alabama and Florida Railroad(Alabama) to ride to Montgomery, where they arrived on the 19th. Leaving Mongomery the next morning, they crossed into Georgia at Columbus, where they once again changed trains. Traveling all night on the South Western Railroad, the men arrived at Andersonville Prison at 8 a.m. on the 21st of April, 1864. The trip from Union City had required just under a month. C...
