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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 402 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 501 (search)
A private letter, dated Camp Defiance, Cairo, May 13, 1861, contains the following:--
Your blood would boil if you should witness what I have witnessed.
Persons are daily arriving here who have been driven away from the South--some for expressing love of the Union, and others for saying that they did not wish to fight against us. Many such have been whipped, scourged, and treated with all manner of brutalities.
One man, a Philadelphian, called upon Gen. Prentiss, and invited him to his room in the hotel, where lie exhibited the welts and wounds inflicted by those fiends of rebellion upon his person.
The devils had not only beaten him black and blue, but had slashed his arms and body with their knives.
He was the worst object I ever saw. This man was making collections in the South for a Philadelphia house, and such was the payment received from Southern creditors.
The game of the villains is about up here.
Every traitor who makes his appearance is arrested.
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