Forked posts at the ends and sides supported poles upon which were laid the long "shakes," or split shingles, forming the roofs, and which were held in place by other poles laid upon them.
The sides and ends were enclosed by similar "shakes," and altogether they formed quite a fair protection against the weather.

Beds of pine leaves were provided for the sick, and some coverlets, which our Sanitary Commission had been allowed to send through.

But nothing was done to bathe or cleanse them, or to exchange their lice-infested garments for others less full of torture.

The long tangled hair and whiskers were not cut, nor indeed were any of the commonest suggestions for the improvement of the condition of the sick put into execution.

Men who had laid in their mud hovels until they had become helpless and hopeless, were admitted to the hospital, usually only to die.
The diseases were different in character from those which swept off the prisoners at Andersonville.