The impression is
growing that the situation is more and more unfavorable every day. Hospitals
are overflowing with sick and no more admittance, though crowds throng at the
gate daily; deaths are rapidly increasing. The numbers laying about, helpless
and speechless, are growing daily. Thompson reported a particular case to the
gate, asking help, and got the answer: "You Yanks help yourselves."
Sergeants of detachments have reported so many cases of insane, helpless and
entirely naked men, and got no satisfaction, that they ceased to do so.
A much worn Atlantic
Monthly of 1861, fell into my hands which I read with interest;
"Concerning Veal," by the author of "Recreations of a Country
Parson," and "Nat Turner, the Slave Insurrectionist of 1831,"
who aroused all Virginia to defend slavery. I noticed today a man with the
whole lower part of his body buried in dirt as a remedy for scurvy.
SOURCE: John Worrell
Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville
and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, p. 72-3
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