superficial area and air space per bed - sufficient. * * * 51. Medical and surgical treatment - fair. 52. Surgical operations, how performed - by surgeon in charge. 53. Nursing, how performed - by prisoners. 54. Diseases prevalent - diarrhea, dysentery, chronic, pneumonia. 55. Diseases of a local origin - none. * * * 57. Recoveries from diseases, wounds, rapid or tardy - rapid. 58. Mortality from diseases, wounds, per cent. to sick - two-thirds per cent. for July. 59. Vaccination - not practiced. 60. Interments, how conducted and recorded - by undertaker, properly recorded.

C. T. ALEXANDER,

Surgeon, U. S. Army, and Medical Inspector.

ANDERSONVILLE, August 7, 1864.

(Via Macon.)

General S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General:

The new prison site has been selected, five miles from Millen, toward Augusta. Please send authority to impress negroes, teams and wagons, lumber and saw-mills. It is of the greatest importance that the garrisons should be built as soon as possible. We are full here to overflowing.

JNO H. WINDER,

Brigadier-General.

[First indorsement.]

Respectfully submitted to Honorable Secretary of War.

H. L. CLAY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Second indorsement.]

AUGUST 8, 1864.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL:

If the requisite labor, transportation, materials cannot be obtained on reasonable terms by hire or purchase, impressment must be resorted to. The law should then be carefully observed.

J. A. SEDDON.

Consolidated return for C. S. military prison, Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Ga., for the week ending August 7, 1864.

Date. Received Recaptur Total In In Grand

. ed. received prison hospit total.

. quarter al.

s.

August . . . . . . . . . 29,985 1,693 31,678

1. .

a42 . . . 42 29,851 1,753 31,646

2. .

b1,075 2 1,077 29,782 1,791 32,650

3. .

c220 . . . 220 29,976 2,599 32,795

4. .

d1 . . . 1 30,147 2,573 32,721

5. .

e174 . . . 174 29,778 2,843 32,805

6. .

f82 . . . 82 29,954 2,748 32,784

7. .

Date. Escaped Died Total died, In In Total

. . escaped, prison hospita on

sent off, quarters l. hand.

paroled, .

released,

and

exchanged.

August . . . 74 74 29,985 1,619 31,604

1. .

. . . 73 73 29,893 1,680 31,573

2. .

. . . 75 75 30,859 1,716 32,575

3. .

1 74 75 30,195 2,525 32,720

4. .

. . . 90 90 30,148 2,483 32,631

5. .

. . . 103 103 29,962 2,740 32,702

6. .

. . . 71 71 30,026 2,687 32,713

7. .

a from Atlanta.

b 1,075 from Macon.

c 220 from Atlanta.

d 1 from Macon.

e 140 from East Point, 9 from Forsyth, 8 from Macon, 17 from La Grange.

f 82 from Macon.