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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
ut as follows: In April, 10,000; May, 18,000; June, 26,000; July, 31,000; August, 31,000. After this date the number was suddenly decreased to 8,000 in September, and to 4,000 in October, by the removal of all the prisoners except invalids and nurses to Millen in the eastern part of Georgia. This change was made in consequence partly of the advice of General Winder, and also because of a threatened raid from Sherman's army then at Atlanta. The deaths during five months from March 1st to August 1st, were only 4,485, about ten per cent. But on the occurring of a pestilence in the form of dysentery, scurvy and gangrene, the deaths increased greatly during the months of August, September and October. In consequence of the dangerous nature of the diseases appearing in the camp the Confederate government directed the above stated removal of at least 20,000 prisoners to other points remote from Andersonville as soon as barrack accommodations could be built and supplies collected. The re
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
an three hundred in number, he moved up the Rio Grande into the Territory of New Mexico, in June, and occupied Mesilla, where on the 25th of July he was attacked by the Federal forces from Fort Fillmore. Repulsing the attack, he next moved against the enemy, who abandoned the fort and surrendered nearly seven hundred men on the 27th. Soon afterward he was joined by Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and other officers on their way from California to unite with the Confederate forces. On the first of August he issued a proclamation taking command of the Territory of Arizona, which he defined as all that part of New Mexico lying south of the thirty-fourth parallel, in the name of the Confederate States, and formed a temporary organization under a military government, with a full list of appointments of judicial and executive officers. He continued to discharge the duties of governor as well as those of military commander and was active in protecting the people from Indian forays. By the