sentences:  During the course of the war, more of these men would be lost to exhaustion, disease, and malnutrition than to battle.The city itself, on two navigable rivers and a railroad, became home to a number of Confederate installations and offices.These included commissary and quartermaster offices and warehouses, engineers' offices and workshops, a large ordnance depot, two large hospitals, offices of the medical purveyor of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, and a huge military encampment at the fairgrounds in Webb's Bend.