John's granddaughter recalled a story he told from his experiences in Andersonville... During the hottest part of the summer, when the fetid stream was a mere trickle, and prisoners were dying of thirst, they began to pray for water. A spring burst forth inside the stockade. Many prisoners attributed the occurrence to Divine Providence and named it Providence Spring. It was a permanent source of fresh water that still exists to this day.
Upon his release from Andersonville (his whole company had been let out of prison because they were so ill), he was required to march 270 miles on foot from City Point to Washington, D.C., part of which he crawled on his hands and knees. He was honorably discharged at or near Washington, D.C. on June 2, 1865. One of John Adams' granddaughters remembered that when he came home from the Civil War, the family did not recognize him. All of his teeth were gone and he a mere skeleton of what he had been. John evidently got a sum of money when he was discharged, because they were able to build a new home and buy new furniture. They hadn't been in the house very long when it burned to the ground. As a result, they had to move back into the old house again. The granddaughter remembers her Grandpa Adams saying, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away."
John died in his 80th year in Richland, Venango County, Pennsylvania.
John's granddaughter recalled a story he told from his experiences in Andersonville... During the hottest part of the summer, when the fetid stream was a mere trickle, and prisoners were dying of thirst, they began to pray for water. A spring burst forth inside the stockade. Many prisoners attributed the occurrence to Divine Providence and named it Providence Spring. It was a permanent source of fresh water that still exists to this day.
Upon his release from Andersonville (his whole company had been let out of prison because they were so ill), he was required to march 270 miles on foot from City Point to Washington, D.C., part of which he crawled on his hands and knees. He was honorably discharged at or near Washington, D.C. on June 2, 1865. One of John Adams' granddaughters remembered that when he came home from the Civil War, the family did not recognize him. All of his teeth were gone and he a mere skeleton of what he had been. John evidently got a sum of money when he was discharged, because they were able to build a new home and buy new furniture. They hadn't been in the house very long when it burned to the ground. As a result, they had to move back into the old house again. The granddaughter remembers her Grandpa Adams saying, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away."
John died in his 80th year in Richland, Venango County, Pennsylvania.
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