New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-25

medical attendance, found the men destitute and o,
clothing and bedding and fuel there was only partial
supply; Ak the officer of the day. shortly after arrived
there was in supreme command and it was my Dusl'
ness to rectify anything wrong; found the men as
general thing destitute partly Naked sick and diseased
their disposition only was to get something 70 eat;
they asked for orders for potatoes biscuits,
siftngs Of meal and other things The following morn,
ing sat down and made report on the condition or
things found at the hospital The report was sent up
Being novice for some Of the things said received
written reprimand signed by DR.. billiard for Dr. X.
X. Stevenson. Medicines being scarce, gathered up
a large quantity of what were the best attainaole'
s1y snn sna to w sal. ''
think the reports were not needed. My
attention was called to patient in my ward who was
him owing TO his youth he would ask me to bring him
potato, bread or biscuit. which did, put them IN
my pocket he had the scurvy and eangrene advised
him not 10 cook the potato but to cat 1t raw ne pecae
more and emaciated his sores ganTened and for
want Of food and from lice. he died; understood
that it against the order to take anything INTO
the prisoners and hence was shy in Slipping food INTO
nv pockets; others in my ward came TO their deaths
from the same whenI went there there were 2OO
or . 200 sick; Judge 10000 or 5000 prisoners were
crowsd together; some had made holes and burrows
In earth; those under the sheds we're doing compar
atiyely WELL i saw but httls shelter ex
cepiing what ingenuity had devised / found
them suffering with scurry. dropsy. dar
rloea gangreen pneumonia and other diseases. when
prisoners died they were laid in wagon. head fore
most to be carried OFF. don't know how they were
buried. The efiuyia from the hospital was
offensive. II by accident my hands were were
abraded, i would not 90 into the
hospital without putting plaster over the affected
part; if persons whose systems were reduced ny
inanton should perchance stump toe or scratch tho
hand the next report to was gangrenei so potent
was the regular hospital gangrene tie prisoners were
more thickly confined in the st0ckade like ants ana
bees the dogs referred TO TO hunt the prisoners who
escaped; fifty per cent Of those who died might have
been saved feel safe in saying - might have been
saved had the patients been properly cared for the e
feet of the treatment Of the prisoners was morally MS
well as physically injurious there was much stealing
among them all lived each for himself; suppose TINS
was superinduccd BY their starving condition; seeing
the diving condition of OF them remarked 10 my
student: Il ca Mt resuscitate them; the weather
Is chilling; IL Is a matter Of impossiblhty;'
found persons lying dead sometimes among the liv-
ing; thinking they merely slept went to wake them
up but found they had taken their ever lasting sleeps
this was in the hospitals Ijndge was about the same
in the sockade; there being no dead house erected
tent for that purpose but l soon found
that a blanket or quilt had been clipped of OF
the canvas; and as the material could not BE- readily
supplied for repairs the dead had TO be aban
doned / don't think any more dead'houses were
erected the daily ration less in September. Octo
her November and December than II was from the LIST
January 10 the 10Th Of March the men had no, over 20
ounces Of food for % hours.
Without concluding the examination the Court AZ
; O'Clock Adjourned until tomorrow morning az 10
O'Clock.