. Prison life in the South : at Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsborough, and Andersonville, during the years 1864 and 1865. 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 Calvin Bates (Fig. 1), Corporal Co. E, 20th Maine. Many of these sworn statements were the w
. Prison life in the South : at Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsborough, and Andersonville, during the years 1864 and 1865. 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 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
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