from ANDERSONVILLE, By John McElroy at Project Gutrnberg
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in December 1864:
PRISONERS HEARD FROM. – The following is an extract from a letter written by Mr. Lewis DeMott, of this village (now in hospital at Annapolis, Md.) to his wife, under date of Dec. 1, 1864:
“I have just been talking with a young man by the name of Conway, who was a prisoner and has just returned from Andersonville. He saw a number of Seneca Falls men there, and said that Thomas Pringle died with chronic diarrhea – run down quick and died suddenly. Mr. Young who formerly kept the American, also died with the same complaint. He saw Hiram Barton, Charley Randolph, Albert Stout, and quite a number of others, who he said were well when he left there.”
Lewis DeMott was a member of the 9th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment.
Thomas W. Pringle and Talcott B. Young were both members of the 148th New York Infantry. According to A list of the Union soldiers buried at Andersonville they both did succumb to diarrhea. The dates of their deaths in the Andersonville records match the information in the New York State roster.
Thomas W. Pringle
Talcott B. Young
small, hellish world
