Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Johnson's Island” in chapter 1.24, section c.1.24.376, page 379 of Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17.:
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I am well acquainted with a Confederate captain now living in Richmond, a perfect Hercules in physique, who (if I remember rightly) weighed fifty pounds less upon leaving Johnson's Island than when he entered its prison walls.
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