. Prisoners of war and military prisons; personal narratives of experience in the prisons at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Charleston, and Columbia ... with a list of officers who were prisoners of war from January 1, 1864 . and foaming with rage;but the paroxysm is mo-mentary ; his strength isexhausted ; he falls to theground helpless as infancy, and is borne away by his com-rades. There is one form of disease which is almost too horridto be Avitnessed, 3^et we can not understand the wretched-ness of the prison without looking upon it. This is nota solitary case,
. Prisoners of war and military prisons; personal narratives of experience in the prisons at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Charleston, and Columbia ... with a list of officers who were prisoners of war from January 1, 1864 . and foaming with rage;but the paroxysm is mo-mentary ; his strength isexhausted ; he falls to theground helpless as infancy, and is borne away by his com-rades. There is one form of disease which is almost too horridto be Avitnessed, 3^et we can not understand the wretched-ness of the prison without looking upon it. This is nota solitary case, but we shall find numerous similar onesbefore we leave this living charnel house. We instinct-ively pause as we reach the awful sight before us, holdingour breath lest we inhale the terrible stench that arisesfrom it. Here is a living being, who has become so ex-hausted from exposure that he is unable to rise from theground, suffering with diarrhea in its last and worst is covered with his own faeces ; the vermin crawl andriot upon his flesh, tumbling undisturbed into his eyesand ears and open mouth ; the worms are feeding beneathhis skin, burying themselves, where his limbs, swollenwith scurvy, haveburst open in running sores; they have. Prisoners of War. 249 even found their way into his intestines, and form a liv-ing, writhing mass within him. His case has been repre-sented to the surgeons, but they have pronounced himincurable, and he is left here in his misery, in which hewill linger three or four days more. Proper care andtreatment would have saved him long ago, but not now,and his comrades abandon him to death. While we are gazing upon this sickening spectacle, thedrum beats at the south gate, and the prisoners, droppingtheir half-cooked food, hasten to form themselves inranks, preparatory to being counted. Being arranged inirregular lines, the strong men standing for the most partwith uncovered heads—having no liats—the weak sittingor lying upon the ground,
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