. Prison life in the South : at Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsborough, and Andersonville, during the years 1864 and 1865. Calvin Bates (Fig. 1), Corporal Co. E, 20th Maine. Many of these sworn statements were the words of dy-ing men. Others still live, monuments of the wantoncruelty of the Kebel authorities. We have stated that there were two hundred andeighty-seven cases of the character represented by ourillustrations. On the ninth of April there were still leftat Andersonville, Georgia, 2500 poor fellows, who re-mained there because they were unab
. Prison life in the South : at Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsborough, and Andersonville, during the years 1864 and 1865. Calvin Bates (Fig. 1), Corporal Co. E, 20th Maine. Many of these sworn statements were the words of dy-ing men. Others still live, monuments of the wantoncruelty of the Kebel authorities. We have stated that there were two hundred andeighty-seven cases of the character represented by ourillustrations. On the ninth of April there were still leftat Andersonville, Georgia, 2500 poor fellows, who re-mained there because they were unable to march. As soon as these prisoners return to us they are treatedwith all possible kindness. None of those heroes whohave died on the battle-field are more worthy of remem- SKETCHES OF PRISON LIFE. 309. Calvin Bates (Fig. 2). brance than such men as Doctors Palmer and Buzzell,who literally worked themselves to death in their effortsto alleviate the sufferings of our prisoners. Many ofthese famished prisoners come to us so exhausted thatthey are unable to receive proper food, and many ofthem die from the change in diet. Dr. J. C. Dalton, Professor of Physiology and Microscop-ic Anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons 310 SKETCHES OF PKISON LIFE. in this city, thus reports respecting the general conditionof the prisoners delivered up at Wilmington : The better cases were walking about the streets, per-haps barefooted, or with no other clothing than a pairof white cotton drawers and an old blanket or over-coat,both equally ragged. In these, the slow, dragging gait,listless manner, and cavernous, inexpressive look of theface, together with the general emaciation, formed a pe-culiar aspect, by which they alone attracted the attentionof the passer-by, and by which they were at on
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