Answer. That night they gave us a piece of corn-bread about an inch thick, two or three inches long. Some nights we would have a couple of spoonfuls, maybe, of raw rice or raw beans; other nights they would not give us that. A squad of 100 men of us would have about 20 sticks of wood, and in order to cut that up we would have to pay a man for the use of an axe by giving him a piece of the stick for splitting up the rest. We lay right on the ground in the snow. Twenty of us together would lay with our feet so close to the fire that the soles of our boots would be all drawn, and we would get up in the morning all shivering, and I could not eat what little food I did get. Question. What is the cause of your sickness? Answer. Just the food we got there and this exposure. Eating this corn-bread continually gave me the diarrhoea. We would get thirsty and drink that river water. We had little bits of beef sometimes; generally it was tough, more like a piece of India-rubber you would rub pencil-marks out with. What little food we did get was so bad we could not eat it. At first, for five or six days, we could eat it pretty well, but afterwards I could not eat it. Question. Have you been brought to your present condition by your treatment there? Answer. Yes, sir; by the want of proper food, and exposure to the cold. * * * * * John C. Burcham, sworn and examined. By Mr. Julian: Question. Where did you enlist, and in what regiment? Answer. I enlisted in Indianapolis, in the 75th Indiana regiment, Colonel Robinson. Question. When were you taken prisoner, and where? Answer. I was taken prisoner at Chickamauga, on the 20th of September. Question. Where were you carried then? Answer. The next day they took us to Atlanta, and then on to Richmond. Question. What prison were you put in? Answer. I was on Belle Isle five or six days and nights, and then they put me in a prison over in town. Question. How did they treat you there? Answer. Rough, rough, rough. Question. What did they give you to eat? Answer. A small bit of bread and a little piece of meat; black beans full of worms. Sometimes meat pretty good, sometimes the meat was so rotten that you could smell it as soon as you got it in the house. We were used rough, I can tell you. Question. Did they leave you your property? Answer. They took everything we had before ever we got to Richmond; my hat, blankets, knife. We did not do very well until we got some blankets from our government; afterwards we did better. Before that we slept right on the floor, with nothing over us except a little old blanket one of us had. Question. What was their manner towards you? Answer. I call it pretty rough. If a man did not walk just right up to the mark they were down on him, and not a man of us dared to put his head out of the window, for he would be shot if he did. Several were shot just for that. Question. What is the cause of your sickness?