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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Prisoners North and South. (search)
e the spirit of fairness in the Northern people will appreciate and admit it when the facts are known. The South was greatly in need of food, clothing and medical supplies. In 1864 its armies were subsisting almost wholly on corn and corn-meal. The supply of meat was almost exhausted. On October 18, 1864, S. B. French, major and commissary on subsistence, reports: We have on hand in the Confederate States rations of meat to subsist three hundred thousand men for twenty-five days. On August 2, 1864, Dr. White, the medical officer in charge at Andersonville, reports: The supplies of medicine have been entirely exhausted. The ration issued to the prisoners is the same as that issued to the Confederate soldier in the field. The meal is unbolted, and when baked is coarse and unwholesome. Even sieves or means for bolting could not be had on account of the strict blockade. Judge Robert Ould, Confederate commissioner of exchange, in his statement published in the National Intelligen