Ravages of the Scurvy among the Chickamauga Prisoners.--Too long without Fruit and Vegetables.--The Horrors of the Scurvy.--Certain Death.--Frightful Mortality.--Fortunate Removal from Andersonville.--Arrival at Charleston, S. C.--Transferred to Florence, S. C.--Description of the latter Prison.--Shortest Rations ever Issued.--Certain Starvation on the Rations.--Efforts for more Food.-- Providential Success.--Three Days without Rations.-- Prison-Keepers Cruel and Inhuman.--Terrible Sufferings during the Winter.--Unparalleled Mortality.--Raw Rations and Insufficient Fuel.--Life under Ground.--Swamp Fever.--Taken with the Fever.--Flight from Florence.-- Wilmington.--Goldsboro'.--Hard Times of a Sick Man.-- Prison Exchange Foolery.--Back to Wilmington 34 CHAPTER V. Return to Goldsboro'.--Drunk with Fever.--Too Sick to Walk.--Left Behind.--God Bless the Ladies of Goldsboro'.--Personal Experiences.--Negotiations for a Friend.--An Improvised Hospital.--Sick unto Death.--Semi-Consciousness.--More Kindness from the Ladies of Goldsboro'.--Paroled.--Passed into our Lines near Wilmington.--At Wilmington in the Hands of the Blue Coats.--Friend Lost.--Still very Sick with Fever.-- Determined to go North.--Efforts to get North.--On board Ship.--Ho, for Annapolis.--Incidents of the Voyage.-- Annapolis.--Getting Better.--Stomach Trouble.--Sent to Baltimore.--Furloughed Home 44 CHAPTER VI. At Home.--Nothing but a Skeleton.--A good Imitation of Lazarus.--A digression upon the Subject of Sleeplessness.--A well-intended Fraud on a Hospital Nurse.--Return of Sleep.--Improvement in Health.--Stomach the only Difficulty.--A Year passes.--Stomach Worse.--Constant Headache.--Much Debilitated.--Awful Suffering.--Bodily Agony Debilitates the Mind.--Sufferings Intolerable.--Physicians and Remedies Tried without Avail.--Forlorn Hope and Last Resort.--Better.--Doubts as to Treatment.--Suspicions Confirmed.--Uncomplimentary Remarks concerning an M. D.--Uncomfortable Discoveries and Reflections 50 CHAPTER VII. The War Begins.--Struggles to Renounce Opium.--Physical Phenomena Observed in attempting to Leave Off the Drug.--Difficulty in Abjuring the Fiend.--I Fail Absolutely.--Some Difference with De Quincey regarding the Effects of Opium.--A Preliminary Foresight into the Horrors of Opium 61 CHAPTER VIII.