At Andersonville, prisoners were buried in trenches with their headstones only inches apart as the death rate rose to 100 per day and officials stopped using pine-box coffins, placing the bodies shoulder to shoulder. At first, only numbered stakes marked the graves, and many of the dead might have remained unidentified without the efforts of former prisoner Dorence Atwater. Assigned by prison officials to keep records of the dead, Atwater secretly made a second copy of the death list in hopes of notifying bereaved relatives after the war and smuggled it out in the lining of his jacket. When he returned to Andersonville with Clara Barton in July 1865, they matched his list to the numbered stakes so that each prisoner could be honored by name. As G. E. Reynolds of the 86th Ohio Infantry wrote on August 3, 1864, if a man died in good clothes he was buried nearly naked because the living needed apparel and the dead did not.