The remaining two thousand five hundred do not do even this, but lie around on the ground, on old blankets and overcoats, and in day-time prop these up on sticks, as shelter from the rain and wind.

Let them be given not to exceed a pint of corn meal a day, and a piece of wood about the size of an ordinary stick for a cooking stove to cook it with.

Then let such weather prevail as we ordinarily have in the North in November--freezing cold rains, with frequent days and nights when the ice forms as thick as a pane of glass.
How long does he think men could live through that?
He will probably say that a week, or at most a fortnight, would see the last and strongest of these ten thousand lying dead in the frozen mire where he wallowed.

He will be astonished to learn that probably not more than four or five thousand of those who underwent this in Florence died there.

How many died after release--in Washington, on the vessels coming to Annapolis, in hospital and camp at Annapolis, or after they reached home, none but the Recording Angel can tell.