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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The monument to Captain Henry Wirz. (search)
of testimony of thousands of them starving to death and many freezing to death from lack of shelter and clothing to protect them. Let us take Elmira, N. Y., prison and see how well fed and sheltered the Confederate prisoners were. The official report of that pen shows that during the month of September, 1864, which was the first month that the quota of that prison was made up—out of less than 9,500 prisoners, the deaths were 386. The records at Andersonville show that between the 1st of February and 1st of August, 1864, out of 36,000 prisoners, 6,000, or one-sixth died. In other words, the average mortality at Andersonville, during that period, was one thirty-sixth of the whole per month, while at Elmira, N. Y., it was one-twenty-fifth of the whole. At Elmira it was 4 per cent.; at Andersonville, less than 3 per cent. The record also shows that scurvy appeared in this prison in a very malignant form. Men became covered with fearful sores, many lost their teeth, and many