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during the summer in a Regt of Pennsylvania Cavalry. They are stationed at Camp Pierpont. The sister learned that her brother was sick and with the energetic habit of a true English woman carried the seventy nine miles out to his camp & took the same day - found him in an almost dying condition and begged that he be sent to her. She was taken shortly after in an ambulance and upon his arrival his condition was found to be most deplorable - he had been attacked with ordinary fever - and had lain unmoved until the flesh upon all parts of the body which rested hard upon an ulcer was under him had decayed and grown perfectly black and was falling out. His heels had around the same affected his toes also were dropping off at the joints. His stockings had never been removed during all his illness and his toes were matted and grown together and are now dropping off at the joints. The sores in his back are absolutely frightful. When intelligent medical attention was summoned from the city the verdict of rendue upon examination was that his extremities were perishing for want of nourishment, he had been neglected until he was literally starving - too little nourishment had been taken into the

system during his illness to preserve life in the extremities - This conclusion seems all the more reliable from the famished appearance which he presents - I am accustomed to see people hungry when seeming from a fever - but I find that hunger and starvation, are two distinct conditions - he can lie only on his face with his insteps pressed up with hair pillows to prevent his toes from touching the bed (for with the life engendered by food & care, sensation is returning to them) and asks only for "something to eat." food is placed by him at night, and with the earliest dawn of day commences his bouts of broths & soups over a little meal. and he eats and begs for more, and sleeps & eats & begs - three of his toes are to be amputated today.

The surgeon of the Regt comes to see him, but had no idea of his condition, said that the last Asst Surgeon was killed and that he