CHAPTER IV.

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