eir jailors, sometimes for violating rules of which they
had not been informed. Crowded in great numbers in
buildings, they have been fired at and killed by the
sentinels outside when they appeared at the windows for the
purpose of obtaining a little fresh air. One man, whose
comrade in the service, in battle and in captivity, had been
so fortunate as to be among those released from further
torments, was shot dead as he was waving with his hand a
last adieu to his friend; and other instances of equally
unprovoked murder are disclosed by the testimony.

"The condition of our returned soldiers as regards personal
cleanliness, has been filthy almost beyond description.
Their clothes have been so dirty and so covered with vermin,
that those who received them have been compelled to destroy
their clothing and re-clothe them with new and clean
raiment. Their bodies and heads have been so infested with
vermin that, in some instances, repeated washings have
failed to remove them; and those who have received them in
charge have been compelled to cut all the hair from their
heads, and make applications to destroy the vermin. Some
have been received with no clothing but shirts and drawers
and a piece of blanket or other outside covering, entirely
destitute of coats, hats, shoes or stockings; and the bodies
of those better supplied with clothing have been equally
dirty and filthy with the others, many who have been sick
and in the hospital having had no opportunity to wash their
bodies for weeks and months before they were released from
captivity.

"Your committee are unable to convey any adequate idea of
the sad and deplorable condition of the men they saw in the
hospitals they visited; and the testimony they have taken
cannot convey to the reader the impressions which your
committee there received. The persons we saw, as we were
assured by those in charge of them, have greatly improved
since they have been received in the hospitals. Yet they are
now dying daily, one of them being in the very throes of
death as your committee stood by his bed-side and witnessed
the sad spectacle there presented. All those whom your
committee examined stated that they have been thus reduced
and emaciated entirely in consequence of the merciless
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