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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The treatment of prisoners during the war between the States. (search)
s no military necessity requiring the government to sacrifice almost every consideration to the inaccessibility of the prison, and the securing of the prisoners, and where Nature had furnished every possible requisite for salubrity. And now that I am speaking of the death-record, I will jot down two rather singular facts in connection therewith. The first was the unusual mortality among the prisoners from North Carolina. In my diary I find several entries like the following : Monday, October 3d.--Deaths yesterday, 16, of whom 11 N. C. Tuesday, October 4th.--Deaths yesterday, 14, of whom 7 N. C. Now, the proportion of North Carolinians was nothing, even approximating what might have been expected from this record. I commit the fact to Mr. Gradgrind. Can it be explained by the great attachment the people of that State have for their homes? The second was the absolute absence of any death from intermittent fever or any analogous disease. Now I knew well that many