As to the capacity of the bakery, any one can make his own estimates from the plan given. The foreman of the government bakery at Nashville, gives his views in the following note:—
“Sir: Our system in wheaten flour bread is, five men bake six ovens full in the twelve hours; one oven full, 36 pans; 9 loaves (18 rations) in each pan; 36 pans × 18 = 648 × 6 ovens full = 3888 × 2 (for twenty-four hours) = 7776 rations: this is done by two ovens. Say six men on each oven (any more would be in the way), two and a half hours to knead and bake each oven full (almost impossible), ten ovens full in the twelve hours in the day time (two ovens five times full in the twelve hours), ten ovens full in the twelve hours in the night time, each oven full 40 pans, 12 rations in each (20 oz. of corn bread); 40 pans × 12 = 480 × 10 for day’s work = 4800 + 4800 for night work = 9600 rations in the twenty-four hours.
Sir, all the above are in the extreme.
Most respectfully,
John Witherspoon, Foreman U. S. Bakery.”
The hospital register gives the following data as to the number of prisoners present during each month, the number treated medically, and the average number of deaths:—
| Month. | Number of Prisoners. | Number in Hospital. | Average Daily Deaths. |
| February, 1864 | 1,600 | 33 | .. |
| March," | 4,603 | 909 | 9 |
| April," | 7,875 | 870 | 19 |
| May," | 13,486 | 1,190 | 23 |
| June," | 22,352 | 1,605 | 40 |
| July," | 28,689 | 2,156 | 56 |
| August," | 32,193 | 3,709 | 99 |
| September, " | 17,733 | 3,026 | 89 |
| October," | 5,885 | 2,245 | 51 |
| November," | 2,024 | 242 | 16 |
| December," | 2,218 | 431 | 5 |
| January, 1865 | 4,931 | 595 | 6 |
| February," | 5,195 | 365 | 5 |
| March," | 4,800 | 140 | 3 |
The greatest number of deaths, on any single day, was on the 23d of August, 1864, and was 127, or one death every eleven minutes.