Question. In what prison were you placed?
Answer. I was put on Belle Isle first, and then I got sick and was taken to the hospital.
Question. Describe how you were treated there, and the cause of your sickness.
Answer. They did not treat me very kindly. I froze my feet on the island.
Question. How came they to be frozen?
Answer. When they took me prisoner they got away the good shoes I had on, and gave me an old pair of shoes, all cut and split open; and when I was on the island, I had just an old tent to lie under.
Question. Did you not have some blankets to put over you?
Answer. No, sir. They took away my blanket, and everything else—my shoes—even a pair of buckskin gloves I had.
Question. Did they give you anything in place of them?
Answer. No, sir; only that pair of shoes I said.