Identifier: andersonvilles00mcel (find matches)
Title: Andersonville : a story of Rebel military prisons, fifteen months a guest of the so-called southern confederacy : a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear, and Florence
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: McElroy, John, 1846-1929
Subjects: Andersonville Prison United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: Toledo : D. R. Locke
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ilapidated and overburdened line of railroadcommunication, but after arriving at Andersonville, the rationswere frequently insufficient to supply the sudden addition ofseveral thousand men. And as the Confederacy became moreand more pressed, and when powerful hostile armies wereplunging through her bosom, the Federal prisoners of Ander-sonville suffered incredibly during the hasty removal to Millen,Savannah, Charleston, and other points, supposed at the timeto be secure from the enemy. Each one of these causes mustbe weighed when an attempt is made to estimate the unusualmortality among these prisoners of war.25 386 AITDEESONYILLE. YII. Scurvy, arising from sameness of food and imperfectnutrition^ caused, either directly or indirectly, nine-tenths of thedeaths among the Federal prisoners at Andersonville, Not only were the deaths referred to unknown causes, toapoplexy, to anasarca, and to debility, traceable to scurvy andits effects j and not only was the mortality in small-pox, pneu-
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INTEEIOR OF THE STOCKADE THE CREEK AT THE EAST SIDE. (From a Rebel Photograph in possessiou of the Author. monia, and typhoid fever, and in all acute diseases, more thandoubled by the scorbutic taint, but even those all but universaland deadly bowel affections arose from the same causes, andderived their fatal character from the same conditions whichproduced the scurvy. In truth, these men at Andersonvillewere in the condition of a crew at sea, confined in a foul shipupon salt meat and unvarying food, and without fresh vege- A STOET OF REBEL MILITABY PRISONS. 387 tables. Not only so, but these unfortunate prisoners were likemen forcibly confined and crowded upon a ship tossed abouton a stormy ocean, without a rudder, without a compass, with-out a guiding-star, and without any apparent boundary or endto their voyage; and they reflected in their steadily increasingmiseries the distressed condition and waning fortunes of adevastated and bleeding country, which was compelled, in jus-tice

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