[Rock Island Prison Excerpt from "Capon Valley", by Maud Pugh, 1948]
[excerpted 25 Jun 2008, Mark Murphy]

p. 91
At Rock Island the guards were, for a time, colored men and they had some amusing
experiences, but soon things happened that caused extreme scarcity of provision
and other supplies, which meant starvation, and unsanitary, appalling conditions
followed.  They buried their dead comrades of smallpox, and other loathsome
diseases, lived on rats caught and cabbage boiled in water only, etc.