. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . WHERE BLUE AND GRAY WERE CARED FOR ALIKE—AFTER SPOTSYLYANTA In the battle of Spotsylvania, May 12, 1864, General Edward Johnsons division of seven thousand menwere taken prisoners at the salient known as Bloody Angle. Some of the wounded prisoners were plaeedin the same field hospitals as the Federals, and treated by the Union surgeons. They were left on thefield as the army moved on, and a small Confederate cavalry force under Colonel Rosser rescued all whocould be i
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . WHERE BLUE AND GRAY WERE CARED FOR ALIKE—AFTER SPOTSYLYANTA In the battle of Spotsylvania, May 12, 1864, General Edward Johnsons division of seven thousand menwere taken prisoners at the salient known as Bloody Angle. Some of the wounded prisoners were plaeedin the same field hospitals as the Federals, and treated by the Union surgeons. They were left on thefield as the army moved on, and a small Confederate cavalry force under Colonel Rosser rescued all whocould be identified as Confederates, and took all of the hospital attendants not wearing a distinctive surgeons and other attendants were left unmolested. Owing to the hard fighting and frequent changesof position in this campaign, both medical supplies and medical officers were scarcer than had generallybeen the case; but owing to the help of the Sanitary Commission and other outside agencies, the prisonersfared better than they would have done inside their own lines, and had one good meal before their Wvmtmmt of Prtsnn^rs to a large proportion of the prisoners. A one-time prisoner,in a private letter, dated January 16, 1910, says: If I hadbeen able to cook what I had after it was properly bolted, Ishould not have been so hungry, and the ration would havesufficed. A man can eat heartily and then die from starva-tion if he does not digest what he eats, and this was just exactlyour condition. Again he says: I, who drew raw rationsfor more than one hundred days, ate corn-meal which had justbarely been boiled, and which was by no means cooked, or thepea-bean which was not at all softened. ... I venture thestatement that not one-third of the food I ate was digested, orcould be digested, and this was true with all those around me. The officers at this prison lived in constant dread of anuprising. At a time when there were thirty-two thousandprisoners, the guard amounted t
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