Show at andorson Andora And oraon onville ville during the lait two years of 0 the war a thousand michigan soldiers gol diera found their way to the fatuous stockade at and a number cumber were there thera when the great gates opened for the tha last time some of the tb boldest plots to escape were laid in detail by wolver waiver ines inee slid and some soma of the longest tunnels were dug by thorn them two of those these tunnel rj were remarkable remark abla affairs att aarn it took prisoners with wibb stout hearts to even begin one tho only utensils enalla ut tor for digging were wera knives 6 loks otin anil and tile the like at the best no tunnel could lead to liberty in ia a shorter than dept the unit first one jug dug by michigan prisoners nera was waa biar over feet long and the work woe waa all doue by tour fou r moll un on the lie night eight that it wm vita completed complot sd three of the four our pris prig coots a mad toilers boilers were wf ro too ill to piss pass out the fourth crawled along the urk dark hole bole to liberty got away to the woods und for or su au lour was wai happy in ID tile thought that he wils was free re then he be began to the distance to the union lines still and the tha perils peril and priva thoun between and lie he was so BO diao oar aged that lie he returned to the tunnel andi od lined ilia his comrades oom radea later in the night a dozen new yorkers planed passed out but ball all were recaptured before noon next day A necona tunnel began by five won strook an immense rook rock after running mailing twenty tn eaty feet they ibey dug dag to the loll loft eight feet to wo this went neat shead ahead six bis feet and then turned to the right eight feet to got in line they had only gone elieud fourteen feet when they banick quicksand and they it clug ag to the tight light six KIX foot feet alien 1 ton ten toot eo tand and six giz net feet back to left thus thin they ail bad dug a distance atanoa ill of eighty six feet to make maka a line of forty two tiro and their troubles troa blex were voia not yet ended after weary weeks of painful ark burk hey struck tiia ilia ude ade so high that the eurth earth caved from the surface all was and despair but though the cave opened a hole as a big us as a u hu hat right under the tha cyon of the guard not one ol of them haw aw it after going down under the loga the be boys boy had ball to tunnel in m a horizontal direction about fifty feet when all was ready for escape six nix men passed out and the seventh was via seized belied and aad the alarm greti by br a confederate hospital stoward who happened to be pushing over the ground of 01 the alx ail who ho got out four were too weak to got get more thou a mile away and the other two were not dot five miles distant whon when recaptured A third lit ionel started star toi by michigan men and in which over prisoners were interested wua with betrayed to the confederates by a of the third michigan autrY who enlisted from E ealus itte a coun oti oty ty tha joneak gave the ibe boya boy u n R hoping to better his bis own ocial condition lt io n after two tuo or three attempts had been made to kill him he be was taken from the stockade anil made to do dirty work outside und moll though he be perhaps fared a trifle bolter better the tha brave brar hoys boys in the poll pen he be realized that he be wits waa beneath the notion of nt any decent soldier on con either side aide aate r the war he made biado hits hia appearance in eaton county but four or five fire of the men he had betrayed la in the stockade made the district so BO hot for him that he ha soon disappeared some borne of the plans formed for or escape were wild and desperate A michigan artillery man once enlisted COO of the tha prisoners to ia his bid plot to rush upon the gates as they rare ire opened to drive out the dead aarti lot fot a man of them had any sort of weapon wea and yet it was waa ex x that they would over overpower the go guard I 1 capture the reserve rod and not got all prisoners olie re free hopeless an am the case seemed beamed the plan would have been curried out had bid not tho the lender leader been taken outside to do ditty in the hospital hoe pital detroit 1 a tr a it croaa p I 1 a as |