When they were let down at last, all fainted, and were carried away to the hospital, where they were weeks in recovering from the effects.

Some of them were crippled for life.
When we came into the prison there were about eleven thousand there.
More uniformly wretched creatures I had never before seen.

Up to the time of our departure from Andersonville the constant influx of new prisoners had prevented the misery and wasting away of life from becoming fully realized.

Though thousands were continually dying, thousands more of healthy, clean, well-clothed men were as continually coming in from the front, so that a large portion of those inside looked in fairly good condition.

Put now no new prisoners had come in for months; the money which made such a show about the sutler shops of Andersonville had been spent; and there was in every face the same look of ghastly emaciation, the same shrunken muscles and feeble limbs, the same lack-luster eyes and hopeless countenances.
One of the commonest of sights was to see men whose hands and feet were simply rotting off.