The fact of the employment of blood-hounds is too notorious to admit of doubt. Many packs of dogs were kept, and a profitable business was done in the catching of escaped prisoners. Ben Harris was seen to receive pay for the capture of sixty prisoners, at thirty dollars apiece. That some of the pursued were killed in the forests during the pursuit, there is no doubt in the writer’s mind, from the evidence offered.
The following table was collated from the hospital records of the prison, and is believed, by the writer and clerks who were employed at the rebel office, to be quite correct:—
| Month. | Deaths in Hospital. | Deaths in Stockade. | Deaths in Small Pox Hospital. | Total. |
| February, 1864 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
| March," | 262 | 15 | 5 | 282 |
| April," | 471 | 71 | 34 | 576 |
| May," | 633 | 65 | 10 | 708 |
| June," | 1,041 | 150 | 10 | 1,201 |
| July," | 1,119 | 614 | 5 | 1,738 |
| August," | 1,489 | 1,592 | .. | 3,081 |
| September, " | 1,255 | 1,423 | .. | 2,678 |
| October," | 1,294 | 301 | .. | 1,595 |
| November," | 494 | .. | .. | 494 |
| December," | 166 | 2 | .. | 168 |
| January, 1865 | 191 | 8 | .. | 199 |
| February," | 147 | .. | .. | 147 |
| March," | 100 | .. | .. | 100 |
| Total | 8,663 | 4,241 | 64 | 12,968 |
| Hung in stockade for crime | 6 | |||
| Total deaths as registered | 12,974 | |||
The hospital records show that 17,873 patients were registered, and that 823 of these were exchanged, and about 25 took the oath of allegiance, leaving 17,048 to be accounted for, giving a mortality of seventy-six per cent. Besides the registered dead, there were some who perished by the falling of the excavations in the stockade, and others destroyed by hounds and hunters in the forests.
The meteorological tables and the vegetal charts of Blodgett will give the rain-fall of this region in comparison with the other districts of the United States.
The following table, which was compiled by the author from the official records of the British army, gives the number of soldiers who were killed in action, or afterwards perished from their wounds, in many of the great battles of the British empire:—
| Year. | Battles. | Total Strength engaged. | Estimated Deaths. |
| 1809. | Talavera, | 22,100 | 1,445 |
| 1811. | Albuera, | 9,000 | 1,358 |
| 1812. | Salamanca, | 30,500 | 770 |
| 1813. | Vittoria, | 42,000 | 890 |
| 1815. | Ligny, | ... | ... |
| .. | Quatre Bras, | ... | ... |
| .. | Wavre, | 49,900 | 3,245 |
| .. | Waterloo, | ... | ... |
| .. | New Orleans, | 6,000 | 625 |
| 1854. | Crimea, | ... | 4,595 |
| Total number of deaths from wounds | 12,928 | ||
STATISTICS FROM THE CENSUS REPORTS OF 1860.
Georgia.