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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.12 (search)
hem, and every tuft of grass was covered with these loathsome objects. Bathing was out of the question here. The island was below tide-water, and I have seen the water recede and leave the soil as black as tar. I still shudder when I recall my suffering during the three and a half months imprisonment there. We were exposed to every disease, and the mortality among the prisoners was thirty per day while I was there. Our joy was unbounded when, on the 13th day of October, we saw the old Ashland anchor out in the bay, and heard the call for Gettysburg prisoners. We were to go to Point Lookout; had never heard of the place, and knew nothing about it; but we knew it could not be any worse than the place we were in, and were glad of any change. At Point Lookout we had tents-seventeen men to a tent. Our rations were no better, but we could bathe, and that was a great luxury to us. He was kind. Captain Patterson, of the Third or Fifth New Hampshire regiment, had charge of our