{"value"=>"<p>These are a collection of papers concerning the USSC's purchase of a copy of the Andersonville death register, made by C.M. Colvin, a prisoner and registry clerk at the camp hospital. The files contain C.M. Colvin's letter and affidavit of 29 May 1865, accompanied by two tabulated statements of mortality and disease at Andersonville. Colvin's letter also contains his transcription of a poem, \"Will Ye Leave Us Here to Die?,\" written \"in Hospital at Andersonville by S.J. Hyatt, 118th Pa Vols.\" Also present are letters of former USSC employees Harrison Tone (10 Nov. 1866) and Henry S. Holbrook (13 Nov. 1866) to John S. Newberry, former Associate Secretary for the West, regarding the purchase of Colvin's copy. Holbrook's letter mentions the USSC's purchase of a list of New York deaths prepared by another prisoner, and discusses Clara Barton's copy of the death register, prepared by Dorrance Atwater. Also included in the papers are a list of deaths for New York regiments (pp. 5-88 only, providing name, rank, company, and regiment), and a list of Illinois deaths, signed by J.H. Goldsmith, who left prison on March 18, 1865. The list identifies name, rank, company, regiment, date of death and grave number. Deaths for 1864 are in alphabetical order; 1865 deaths through March 17 are in chronological order.</p> <p>As noted in Holbrook's letter, and in the USSC's Sanitary Bulletin (no. 40, 1 August 1865, p. 1267), the Andersonville lists were incorporated into USSC records as proof of death for use by its claim agencies. These are most likely the Andersonville lists found in the Louisville Hospital Directory prisoner of war records.</p>"}