. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . ar beyond their lips. To their left lay a Sergeant and two others,all slowly dying from diarrhea and beyond, a fair-haired German whose life wasebbing away. To my right was a young Sergeant whose left arm had been amputatedand he was turned into the stockade with the stump undressed, where he had notbeen an hour until the maggot flies had laid eggs in the open wound and before theday was gone the worms were hatched out and rioting amid the inflamed nerveswhere their every motion was
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . ar beyond their lips. To their left lay a Sergeant and two others,all slowly dying from diarrhea and beyond, a fair-haired German whose life wasebbing away. To my right was a young Sergeant whose left arm had been amputatedand he was turned into the stockade with the stump undressed, where he had notbeen an hour until the maggot flies had laid eggs in the open wound and before theday was gone the worms were hatched out and rioting amid the inflamed nerveswhere their every motion was agony. I would be happier could I forget his pale faceas he wandered about holding his maimed limb with his right hand and occasionallypressing from it a stream of maggots and pus, before he died. This is what onecould see on every square rod of the prision.—McElroy1 s Andersonville. With one exception, it is said that Catholic Priests were the onlyministers of the Gospel who ever set foot in Confederate prisons. InFebruary, 1865, on the last Sunday before the prisoners were sent CONFEDERATE TRISONS. 449.
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