In the six weeks that we were at Millen, one man in every ten died.

The ghostly pines there sigh over the unnoted graves of seven hundred boys, for whom life's morning closed in the gloomiest shadows.

As many as would form a splendid regiment--as many as constitute the first born of a populous City--more than three times as many as were slain outright on our side in the bloody battle of Franklin, succumbed to this new hardship.

The country for which they died does not even have a record of their names.

They were simply blotted out of existence; they became as though they had never been.
About the middle of the month the Rebels yielded to the importunities of our Government so far as to agree to exchange ten thousand sick.