Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17.
Reverend J. William Jones, Ed.

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Andersonville prison.

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Testimony of Dr. Isaiah H. White, late Surgeon Confederate States Army, as to the Treatment of prisoners there. [Richmond times, August 7, 1890,]

Recently several articles have appeared in leading magazines and journals in the country agitating the treatment of prisoners at Andersonville and other Southern prisons during the late war between the States.

In order that the true condition of this subject might be learned, a reporter for The Times called upon Dr. Isaiah H. White yesterday, who was chief surgeon of military prisoners east of the Mississippi during those days, and his headquarters were for a time at Andersonville.

As evidence of the efficiency of Dr. Isaiah H. White in the position which he held the ‘Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion,’ in referring to one of his sanitary reports, says ‘The following extract shows him neither insensible to the suffering around him nor ignorant of the cause.’