Question. How were you treated when you were taken sick?
Answer. A little better. We then had a sort of bed to lie on.
Question. Did you have all the food you wanted?
Answer. No, sir.
Question. What kind of food did you get?
Answer. Corn-bread, a little piece of meat, sometimes a little rice-soup, and sometimes a few beans.
Question. How often did you get meat?
Answer. Along through the winter we got a little bit of fresh beef, (perhaps once a day,) and then from about March a little pork.
Question. What was the matter with you when you went to the hospital?
Answer. I got a cough which settled on me, and I had pain in my breast.