 | John Brown Gordon - Biography & Autobiography - 1903 - 518 pages
...answer ; but the fort was speedily built. The condition of our army was daily becoming more desperate. Starvation, literal starvation, was doing its deadly...seemed to rise as their condition grew more desperate. The grim humor of the camp was waging incessant warfare against despondency. They would not permit... | |
 | John Brown Gordon - Biography & Autobiography - 1904 - 516 pages
...answer ; but the fort was speedily built. The condition of our army was daily becoming more desperate. Starvation, literal starvation, was doing its deadly...blood-poison, gangrene, and death. Yet the spirits of these braAre men seemed to rise as their condition grew more desperate. The grim humor of the camp was waging... | |
 | Matthew Page Andrews - Southern States - 1912 - 308 pages
...Stamp Act under Colonel Hugh Waddett, of Wilmington, NC, 1766 Januarg Seventeentb VALLEY FORGE EXCEEDED Starvation, literal starvation, was doing its deadly...seemed to rise as their condition grew more desperate. . . It was a harrowing but not uncommon sight to see those hungry men gather the wasted corn from under... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - Georgia - 1917 - 584 pages
...Southern defense became the great problem of the hour. It was no longer possible to feed Lee 's army, and starvation — literal starvation — was doing its...deadly work. So depleted and poisoned was the blood of our men from insufficient and unsound food, that the slightest wound in the finger, a mere scratch,... | |
 | Gerard A. Patterson - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 234 pages
...began to crack. "Starvation, literal starvation, was doing its deadly work," General Gordon wrote. "So depleted and poisoned was the blood of many of...reported at the beginning of the war would often cause blood poison, gangrene and death. "It was a harrowing but not uncommon sight to see those hungry men... | |
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Starvation, literal starvation, was doing its deadly work. So depleted and poisoned was the blood of many of Lee's men from insufficient and unsound food that a slight wound which would probably not have been reported at the beginning of the war would... 