. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . BLANKETS OE THE PRISONERS, CAMP MORTON snow and wind and rain. A part of the time fuelwas insufficient. However, as seen in the middlephotograph, all of the prisoners had 1863, Colonel A. A. Stevens, of the invalidcorps, became commandant of the prison andunder him conditions improved. It is curiousto examine the ornate gateway through whichthe throng is so eager to pass, in the upper photo-graph. The crowd shown inside was even moreeager to pass through t
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . BLANKETS OE THE PRISONERS, CAMP MORTON snow and wind and rain. A part of the time fuelwas insufficient. However, as seen in the middlephotograph, all of the prisoners had 1863, Colonel A. A. Stevens, of the invalidcorps, became commandant of the prison andunder him conditions improved. It is curiousto examine the ornate gateway through whichthe throng is so eager to pass, in the upper photo-graph. The crowd shown inside was even moreeager to pass through this gate, but in the op-posite direction after this became a sanitary conditions were bad. This was asmuch due to the ignorance of proper sanitationin those times as to neglect. No one woulddream in the twentieth century of allow-ing sewage to flow through an open PRIMITIVE DRAINAGE AT CAMP MORTON water was of course abundant, though soap was lacking, andat first rations were sufficient to preserve the strength of theprisoners. During the summer of 1863 conditions were endur-able, but as larger numbers were sent thither, food becamescarcer, and as the weather grew colder, much suffering November 18, 1863, according to the report of the Confed-erate inspector, there were sixty-three hundred in confinement,though the encampment had been intended for about threethousand, and tents for only that number had been effort to provide more was made, but tents to shelter allthe prisoners were never furnished. Many prisoners lay onthe damp ground without protection of any sort and there wasmuch suffering during the winter. Little seems to have been done to better conditions exceptto hurry along the completion of the stockade at Andersonville,and on March 6, 1864, the medical inspector reported that one-fourth the prisoners were sick.
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