Chapter XXI: Part 21

The following exhibit, as collated from the Hospital Register and Prison Records, will be found to be as correct as any yet published:

_Total Number of Prisoners on hand at end of_

APRIL, 1864, 10,427
MAY, 1864, 18,454
JUNE, 1864, 26,367
JULY, 1864, 31,678
AUGUST, 1864, 31,693
SEPTEMBER, 1864, 8,218
OCTOBER, 1864, 4,208
NOVEMBER, 1864, 1,359
DECEMBER, 1864, 4,706
JANUARY, 1865, 5,046
FEBRUARY, 1865, 5,851
MARCH, 1865, 3,319
APRIL, 1865, 51

_Deaths in Stockade and Hospital during the Existence of the Prison._

MARCH, 1864, 283
APRIL, 1864, 576
MAY, 1864, 708
JUNE, 1864, 1,201
JULY, 1864, 1,817
AUGUST, 1864, 3,076
SEPTEMBER, 1864,[B] 2,794
OCTOBER, 1864, 4,590
NOVEMBER, 1864, 492
DECEMBER, 1864, 160
JANUARY, 1865, 190
FEBRUARY, 1865, 139
MARCH, 1865, 192
APRIL, 1865, 32

TOTAL 12,912

[B] The greater number of deaths in September and October, in proportion to the number in prison, will be explained by the fact that all the well men were removed from Andersonville in these months, and none were left except the sick and wounded.

Day and date of greatest number of Prisoners at
Andersonville—33,114—August 8th, 1864.

Day and date of greatest number of deaths, August 23d, 1864, 127.

Number of Prisoners received during its occupation, 45,613.

Daily average of deaths during its occupation, 29¾.

Ratio of mortality per 1,000 of mean strength, 24 per cent.

Mortality of 18,000 registered patients, 75 per cent.

_The Diseases of which the Prisoners died will be found in the following classification_:

Anasarca, 377
Asphyxia, 7
Ascites, 24
Asthma, 3
Bronchitis, 93
Catarrh, 55
Constipation, 5
Diarrhœa, Chronic, 4,000
“ Acute, 817
Debilitas, 198
Diphtheria, 3
Dyspepsia, 2
Diabetes, 1
Dysenteria, 1,384
Erysipelas, 11
Febris Typhoides, 229
Fistula, 2
Fracture, 1
Febris Remittens, 177
Gonorrhœa, 3
Gangrene, 678
Hydrocele, 1
Hemorrhoids, 1
Jaundice, 9
Laryngitis, 4
Nostalgia, 7
Nephritis, 4
Phthisis, 137
Pleuritis, 54
Pneumonia, 321
Paralysis, 1
Rheumatism, 83
Scurvy, 3,574
Syphilis, 7
Scrofula, 3
Stricture, 1
Sunstroke, 52
Small Pox, 68
Vaccine Ulcers, 4
Gunshot Wounds, 155
Unknown, 443
Hung in Stockade, 6

TOTAL 12,912

A List of Officers Imprisoned at Camp Asylum, Columbia, S.C.