. Andersonville : a story of Rebel military prisons, fifteen months a guest of the so-called southern confederacy : a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence . im^;. J- ! Ji \;^^PPi*;i/ -C^:^?!^)™!!!! .p^^i^: .^^. f. w^ ^ «^i6*^ ^> ^=^- 2y - -: :i:. THENEW YOiHK ^^^^UC LIBRARY *5T0R, LENOX ANOTLPtN FOUNPATIONS. A STORY OF REBEL MILITARY PRISONS. 297 vulnerable to disease would have succumbed to the exposure, thepollution of ground and air, and the insufficiency of the rationof coarse corn meal. After this the mortality would be som
. Andersonville : a story of Rebel military prisons, fifteen months a guest of the so-called southern confederacy : a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence . im^;. J- ! Ji \;^^PPi*;i/ -C^:^?!^)™!!!! .p^^i^: .^^. f. w^ ^ «^i6*^ ^> ^=^- 2y - -: :i:. THENEW YOiHK ^^^^UC LIBRARY *5T0R, LENOX ANOTLPtN FOUNPATIONS. A STORY OF REBEL MILITARY PRISONS. 297 vulnerable to disease would have succumbed to the exposure, thepollution of ground and air, and the insufficiency of the rationof coarse corn meal. After this the mortality would be some-what less, say at the end of six months fifty of them would bedead. The remainder would hang on still more tenaciously,and at the end of a year there would be fifteen or twenty stillahve. There were sixty-three of my company taken; thirteenlived through. I believe this was about the usual proportionfor those who were in as long as we. In all there were forty-five thousand six hundred and thirteen prisoners brought intoAndersorLvilie. Of these twelve thousand nme hundred andtwelve died there, to say nothing of thousands that died inother prisons in Georgia and the Carohnas, immediately aftertheir removal from Andersonville. One of every three anda-half men upon w
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