This is exactly right.

Number 1. The camp at Chikamaga was a perfect hell on earth. War itself would have been

a paradise compared with the peace of this camp. I saw many awful sights there, men dying

under the trees for the want of a glass of water. I found there men who had been sick with

a typhoid fever for days and who had not received medical attendance. No one had even taken

their temperature. It was awful. For 500 men in hospitals there were only a dozen attendance.

The water from the creek was simply mud, and yet the boys had to bathe in it and drink it.

Everything about the camp was badly managed. As for the food, there is only one way to

describe it. It was rotten.

Number 2. Someone is to blame for keeping an army of 45,000 men at a camp where all the

water was unfit for a dog to drink, where there was no drainage, no proper food or medicine,

and where the conditions were so unhealthy that every man of 45,000 had intestinal troubles.

Three-fourths of the army slept in little dog tents, as we called them. They were five

feet long and four feet high. There were no cats. The men slept on the ground, and

it rained nearly all the time for six weeks. Our division hospital was arranged to hold

200 men, but we had over 500 sick men in it. Each tent was arranged to hold six men, but

we had 10 and 12 crowded in. There were not cats enough, and sick men had to lie on litters

on the wet ground sometimes for a week. The sick came in 50 and 75 at a time, and there

were no cats, no medicines, no food for them, except the regular army rations issued to

well men. The men detailed for nurses where the poor soldiers in the camp. They nursed

the sick eight hours in the day, and then worked three hours, digging sinks and trenches

and cleaning up the camps.

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