Martyria; or, Andersonville PrisonHamlin, Augustus C. (Augustus Choate)
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Martyria; or, Andersonville Prison
Hamlin, Augustus C. (Augustus Choate)
Andersonville Prison; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
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| Deaths | Deaths | Deaths in |
Month. | in | in | Small Pox | Total.
| Hospital. | Stockade. | Hospital. |
-----------------+-----------+-----------+------------+--------
February, 1864. | 1 | .. | .. | 1
March, " | 262 | 15 | 5 | 282
April, " | 471 | 71 | 34 | 576
May, " | 633 | 65 | 10 | 708
June, " | 1,041 | 150 | 10 | 1,201
July, " | 1,119 | 614 | 5 | 1,738
August, " | 1,489 | 1,592 | .. | 3,081
September, " | 1,255 | 1,423 | .. | 2,678
October, " | 1,294 | 301 | .. | 1,595
November, " | 494 | .. | .. | 494
December, " | 166 | 2 | .. | 168
January, 1865. | 191 | 8 | .. | 199
February, " | 147 | .. | .. | 147
March, " | 100 | .. | .. | 100
+-----------+-----------+------------+--------
Total | 8,663 | 4,241 | 64 | 12,968
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Hung in stockade for crime | 6
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Total deaths as registered | 12,974
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The hospital records show that 17,873 patients were registered, and that
823 of these were exchanged, and about 25 took the oath of allegiance,
leaving 17,048 to be accounted for, giving a mortality of seventy-six per
cent. Besides the registered dead, there were some who perished by the
falling of the excavations in the stockade, and others destroyed by hounds
and hunters in the forests.
* * * * *
The meteorological tables and the vegetal charts of Blodgett will give the
rain-fall of this region in comparison with the other districts of the
United States.
The following table, which was compiled by the author from the official
records of the British army, gives the number of soldiers who were killed
in action, or afterwards perished from their wounds, in many of the great
battles of the British empire:--
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