Is it accurate?
A.

So far as my examination extended, it is accurate.' The document just examined by witness was offered in evidence, and is as follows: Observations upon the diseases of the Federal prisoners, confined to Camp Sumter, Andersonville, in Sumter County, Georgia, instituted with a view to illustrate chiefly the origin and causes of hospital gangrene, the relations of continued and malarial fevers, and the pathology of camp diarrhea and dysentery, by Joseph Jones; Surgeon P.A.C.

S., Professor of Medical Chemistry in the Medical College of Georgia, at Augusta, Georgia.
Hearing of the unusual mortality among the Federal prisoners confined at Andersonville; Georgia, in the month of August, 1864, during a visit to Richmond, Va., I expressed to the Surgeon General, S.P.Moore, Confederate States of America, a desire to visit Camp Sumter, with the design of instituting a series of inquiries upon the nature and causes of the prevailing diseases.

Smallpox had appeared among the prisoners, and I believed that this would prove an admirable field for the establishment of its characteristic lesions.

The condition of Peyer's glands in this disease was considered as worthy of minute investigation.