s were thrown over them, no one
would have supposed that a human form lay beneath, save for the
small prominences which the bony head and feet indicated. Oh! God
of justice, what retribution awaits the perpetrators of such slow
and awful murder.

"The hair of some was matted together, like beasts of the stall
which lie down in their own filth. Vermin are over them in
abundance. Nearly every man was darkened by scurvy, or black with
rough scales, and with scorbutic sores. One in particular was
reduced to the merest skeleton; his face, neck, and feet covered
with thick, green mould. A number who had Government clothes given
them on the boat were too feeble to put them on, and were carried
ashore partially dressed, hugging their clothing with a death-grasp
that they could not be persuaded to yield. It was not unfrequent to
hear a man feebly call, as he was laid on a stretcher, "Don't take
my clothes;" "Oh, save my new shoes;" "Don't let my socks go back
to Andersonville." In their wild death-struggle, with bony arms and
hands extended, they would hold up their new socks, that could not
be put on because of their swollen limbs, saying 'Save 'em till I
get home.' In a little while, however, the souls of many were
released from their worn-out frames, and borne to that higher home
where all things are registered for a great day of account.

"Let our friends at home have open purses and willing hands to keep
up the supplies for the great demand that must necessarily be made
upon them. Much more must yet be done.

"Thousands now languish in Southern prisons, that may yet be
brought thus far toward home. Let every Aid Society be more
diligent, that the stores of the Sanitary Commission may not fail
in this great work."

Her services at Annapolis were cut short, and prematurely discontinued;
for returning to her home for a short stay, to make preparations for a
longer sojourn at Annapolis, she was again attacked by illness, which
rendered it impossible for her to go thither again.

On her recovery, knowing that an immense amount of ignorance existed
among officers and men concerning the operations of the Sanitary
Commission, she compiled a somewhat elaborate, yet carefully condensed
statement of its plans and workings, together with a great amount of
useful information in relation to the