Answer. Just the food we got there and this exposure. Eating this corn-bread continually gave me the diarrhœa. We would get thirsty and drink that river water. We had little bits of beef sometimes; generally it was tough, more like a piece of India-rubber you would rub pencil-marks out with. What little food we did get was so bad we could not eat it. At first, for five or six days, we could eat it pretty well, but afterwards I could not eat it.
Question. Have you been brought to your present condition by your treatment there?
Answer. Yes, sir; by the want of proper food, and exposure to the cold.
John C. Burcham, sworn and examined.
By Mr. Julian:
Question. Where did you enlist, and in what regiment?
Answer. I enlisted in Indianapolis, in the 75th Indiana regiment, Colonel Robinson.
Question. When were you taken prisoner, and where?
Answer. I was taken prisoner at Chickamauga, on the 20th of September.