. Prison life in the South : at Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsborough, and Andersonville, during the years 1864 and 1865. Smith and Churchill. John H. Matthews, a corporal in Company F, of the4th Pennsylvania, testifies that he enlisted in this com-pany August 29th, 1861; was taken prisoner October12th, 1863, in Meades retreat from Culpepper, and that,*after various marchings and countermarchings, he wastaken to Eichmond. For three days he was without anyfood. He testifies that, in long marches which the pris-oners were compelled to make from one pla
. Prison life in the South : at Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsborough, and Andersonville, during the years 1864 and 1865. Smith and Churchill. John H. Matthews, a corporal in Company F, of the4th Pennsylvania, testifies that he enlisted in this com-pany August 29th, 1861; was taken prisoner October12th, 1863, in Meades retreat from Culpepper, and that,*after various marchings and countermarchings, he wastaken to Eichmond. For three days he was without anyfood. He testifies that, in long marches which the pris-oners were compelled to make from one place of confine- SKETCHES OF PRISON LIFE. ;u7 ment to another, the Kebel authorities issued, for threedays rations, one pint of shelled corn. This prisonerlost the use of both his John H. Matthews, Corporal Co. F, 4th Pennsylvania. Calvin Bates testifies that, by reason of exposure andother inhumanities practiced upon him at Andersonville,his feet decayed, so that both of them have since been 308 SKETCHES OF PKISON LIFE. cut off at the ankle with scissors, and that previous tohis imprisonment he was in good health.
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