THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED
No attention was paid by headquarters to this request of General Grover. The corn-meal-pickle diet went on, and we suffered. No blankets, no clothing were ever given us,—and I have been informed by Dr. Cherry, now of Virginia, that he was one of a committee who delivered to Gen. J. G. Foster, under flag of truce, clothing and other articles for our comfort, which General Foster's flag of truce officers received and promised should be delivered to the prisoners at Fort Pulaski and Hilton Head, but which never were given us, but stolen by the men, I suppose, who received them for us under a flag of truce. General Foster, U. S. A., has much to be proud of in this transaction. I shall pass it without further comment.
About the last days of January and during the month of February our suffering was most intense. Scurvy had strong hold on our men, and the doctor in charge of the prison was not allowed the proper medicine to combat the dread
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