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The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Condition of Grant's army. (search)
men. The number of sick now here cannot be estimated readily, as they are so scattered. One sixth of the army iron the sick list. The admissions to the hospitals are about three hundred a day. They were greater, but now give signs of decreasing.--From thirty to fifty a day have died within the past month. That rate, of course, could not long be endured without destroying the entire army. The principal hospital of the camp before the arrival of the new hospital boats from above was a collection of negro quarters, situated at the edge of the camp, and on a small bayon, and known as 'Ballard's Huts.' There are about forty of them, and in these huts were confined about four hundred patients, all huddled together in a noisome, dark, noxious, filthy atmosphere — the dead, the dying and the invalid in one common lot. There is literally nothing anywhere to be seen which resembles or gives an idea of a hospital, unless, indeed, it be a row of newly made graves not far distant.