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Andersonville
Volume 4

CHAPTER LXXI
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The spectacle of men with their feet and legs a mass of dry ulceration, which had reduced the flesh to putrescent deadness, and left the tendons standing out like cords, was too common to excite remark or even attention.

Unless the victim was a comrade, no one specially heeded his condition.

Lung diseases and low fevers ravaged the camp, existing all the time in a more or less virulent condition, according to the changes of the weather, and occasionally ragging in destructive epidemics.

I am unable to speak with any degree of definiteness as to the death rate, since I had ceased to interest myself about the number dying each day.

I had now been a prisoner a year, and had become so torpid and stupefied, mentally and physically, that I cared comparatively little for anything save the rations of food and of fuel.


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