=============================================================== | Number of | Number in | Average Month. | Prisoners. | Hospital. | Daily Deaths. --------------------+--------------+------------+-------------- February, 1864 | 1,600 | 33 | .. March, " | 4,603 | 909 | 9 April, " | 7,875 | 870 | 19 May, " | 13,486 | 1,190 | 23 June, " | 22,352 | 1,605 | 40 July, " | 28,689 | 2,156 | 56 August, " | 32,193 | 3,709 | 99 September, " | 17,733 | 3,026 | 89 October, " | 5,885 | 2,245 | 51 November, " | 2,024 | 242 | 16 December, " | 2,218 | 431 | 5 January, 1865 | 4,931 | 595 | 6 February, " | 5,195 | 365 | 5 March, " | 4,800 | 140 | 3 =============================================================== The greatest number of deaths, on any single day, was on the 23d of August, 1864, and was 127, or one death every eleven minutes. * * * * * The fact of the employment of blood-hounds is too notorious to admit of doubt. Many packs of dogs were kept, and a profitable business was done in the catching of escaped prisoners. Ben Harris was seen to receive pay for the capture of sixty prisoners, at thirty dollars apiece. That some of the pursued were killed in the forests during the pursuit, there is no doubt in the writer's mind, from the evidence offered. The following table was collated from the hospital records of the prison, and is believed, by the writer and clerks who were employed at the rebel office, to be quite correct:--