...most providential. The returned prisoners sent into . Wilmington numbered nearly 9,000. About 7,UUO of the less famished have gone North. General Abbott,...Filth, rags, nakedness, starvation were personified in their condition. Many of the men were in a state of uiind resembling idiocy, unable to tell their...

...thus:— * * * "The returned prisoners sent into Wilmington numbered nearly 9,000. Some 7,000 of tbo less famished have gone North. General Abbott, who...Filth, rags, nakedness, starvation, were personified in their condition. Many of the men were in a state of mind resembling idiocy, unable to tell their...

...writes thus:— * * # "The returned prisoners sent into Wilming'on numbered nearly 9,000. Some 7,000 of the less famished have gone North. General Abbott,...who received our poor fellows in the exchange, has jus told me that language would utterly fail to describe their condition. Filth, rags, nakedness, starvation,...

...officially. " Filth, rags,' nakedness, and starvation were personified in their condition. Many of them were in a state of mind resembling idiocy, unable to tell their names, * * * unconscious of their nakedness; * * * some of them moving about on hands and knees, unable to...

...representatives of many of the returning prisoners. They were human ghosts."24 A doctor observed that "many of the men were in a state of mind resembling idiocy, unable to tell their names. . .Some of them moved about on their hands and knees. . .looking like hungry dogs. Some. . .hitched...

...officially. "Filth, rags, nakedness and starvation were personified in their condition. Many of them were in a state of mind resembling idiocy, unable to tell their names. . . unconscious of their nakedness . . . ; some of them moving about on hands and knees, unable to...