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788 Series II Volume VI- Serial 119 - Prisoners of War

Page 788 PRISONERS OF WAR AND STATE, ETC.

5. How many blankets, quilts, and comforts have you in your squad?

Two hundred and nine.

6. About how much clothing has your squad received since it came to this camp?

About seventy-one suits.

7. Do you draw rations regularly or not?

We do.

8. What is the quality of the rations drawn?

The meal and beef at times are very inferior, other rations good; at times sugar is not as good as we wish.

9. How do the number of rations ordered compare with the number of men reported by you "for duty" and 'sick in quarters?"

They compare well.

10. Is there, to your knowledge, any defect in the amount of rations issued by the post commissary, taking the order as basis?

There is no defect except in beef; the beef does not weigh out, with other rations, according to our scales.

11. Do your men receive prompt medical attendance when reported sick?

They do, by Doctors Holloway and Cook.

WM. BOLIN,

Sergeant-Major Sixty-fourth Virginia.

Sergeant-major Sixty-second North Carolina, please answer in writing on the intervening space the following questions:

1. How many men have you in your squad?

Four hundred and forty-three.

2. How many of those are now sick in hospital, detached, and in confinement?

Twenty-two.

3. How many are there for whom you draw rations?

Four hundred and twelve men.

4. Are there bunks for all men now in your quarters; if not, how many need bunks?

Men all have bunks.

5. How many blankets, quilts, and comforts have you in your squad?

Five hundred and twenty-four.

6. About how much clothing has your squad received since it came to this camp?

Shoes, 134 pair; pants, 72 pair; jackets, 7; drawers, 50 pair; shirts, 93; stockings, 98.

7. Do you draw rations regularly or not?

We do draw regularly.

8. What is the quality of the rations drawn?

All very good excepting the beef.


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