. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Barnes, dated November 1, 1864, Surgeon E. F. Sanger,assigned to duty at the prison, says: On the 13th of August I comnienced making written reports callingattention to the pond, vaults, and their deadly poison, the existence of scurvy to an alarming extent (re-porting 2,000 scorbutic cases at one time), etc. . How does the matter stand to-day? The pond remainsgreen with putrescence, filling the air with its messengers of disease and death; the vaults give out theirsi
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Barnes, dated November 1, 1864, Surgeon E. F. Sanger,assigned to duty at the prison, says: On the 13th of August I comnienced making written reports callingattention to the pond, vaults, and their deadly poison, the existence of scurvy to an alarming extent (re-porting 2,000 scorbutic cases at one time), etc. . How does the matter stand to-day? The pond remainsgreen with putrescence, filling the air with its messengers of disease and death; the vaults give out theirsickly odors, and the hospitals are crowded with victims for the grave. In the face of conditions like these,men become desperate, for there was little choice between death by bullets and death by disease. Later onbarracks were erected instead of the tents, and conditions were materially bettered. Correspondingly,Northern prisoners under the hot sun at Andersonville and on an unaccustomed corn-meal diet were con-tracting dysentery and other diseases more rapidly than would have been the case if they had been jEsraprs frnm Jprtsum * •$• around their barracks, and many slipped through the inefficientguard. When the prison was again occupied in 1863, afterserving as a detention point for paroled Federal soldiers, itwas much dilapidated and extensive repairs were commanding officer complained that many prisoners hadpassed out as workmen, and that once outside the enclosureSouthern sympathizers often effectually concealed their friends. One of the most celebrated escapes was that of GeneralJohn H. Morgan. In the summer of 1863, his cavalry madea famous raid across the Ohio River, which is described in an-other volume of this work. The command Mas captured on the30th of July, and as General Burnside, commander of thedepartment, declared that he had no safe place in which tokeep these dreaded raiders, General Morgan with about thirtyof his officers was co
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