There they were mostly of the digestive organs; here of the respiratory.

The filthy, putrid, speedily fatal gangrene of Andersonville became here a dry, slow wasting away of the parts, which continued for weeks, even months, without being necessarily fatal.

Men's feet and legs, and less frequently their hands and arms, decayed and sloughed off.

The parts became so dead that a knife could be run through them without causing a particle of pain.

The dead flesh hung on to the bones and tendons long after the nerves and veins had ceased to perform their functions, and sometimes startled one by dropping off in a lump, without causing pain or hemorrhage.
The appearance of these was, of course, frightful, or would have been, had we not become accustomed to them.