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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The treatment of prisoners during the war between the States. (search)
d the Union prisoners at Libby Prison and on Belle Isle? Answer. I never knew that any cruelty was use, but urged to keep themselves clean. At Belle Isle, for a brief season (about three weeks), in entioning Lieutenant.Bossieux, commanding on Belle Isle. His letter was addressed to the President e Libby and other prisons in Richmond and on Belle Isle. This we have done, because the publicationehoods published as to prisoners freezing on Belle Isle. The statements of the Sanitary Commission, as to prisoners freezing to death on Belle Isle, are absurdly false. According to that statementof as to the healthiness of the prisoners on Belle Isle, and the small amount of mortality, is remarfrom the establishment of the prison camp on Belle Isle in June, 1862, to the 10th of February, 1865at the average number of deaths per month on Belle Isle was from two to five, more frequently the leer silence all clamor about Libby Prison and Belle Isle and Andersonville. At Fort Delaware the mis[1 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Report of Colonel D. T. Chandler, (search)
it without scruple or mercy. The responsibility of the lives lost at Andersonville rests, since July, 1864, on General Meredith, Commissary-General of Prisoners, and (chiefly) on Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. No one of sound head or heart would now hold the Northern people responsible for these things. The blood is on the skirts of their then rulers; and neither Mr. Garfield nor Mr. Blaine can change the record. I never heard that there was any particular suffering at Libby or Belle Isle, and do not believe there was. Crowded prisons are not comfortable places, as our poor fellows found at Fort Delaware, Johnson's Island, &c. I have at this late day no means of refreshing my memory in regard to the general orders on the subject of prison treatment, but this as a general fact I do know, that Mr. Davis' humanity was considered to be a stronger sentiment with him than public justice, and it was a common remark that no soldier capitally convicted was ever executed, if the P
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The treatment of prisoners during the war between the States. (search)
We clip the following from a Northern paper published not long after the close of the war: General Butler said at Hamilton, Ohio, the other day, that while he never answered anonymous newspaper attacks, he felt it his duty here at Hamilton to refute a slander which had been circulated from this platform a few days ago by a gentleman of standing in advocating the election of the Democratic candidate. He has chosen to say that I am responsible for the starvation of our prisoners at Belle Isle and Andersonville, by refusing to exchange soldiers because the Rebels did not recognize the negroes in our service as regular soldiers. I don't propose to criticise anybody, or to say who was right or who was wrong, but I propose to state the exact facts, because it has been widely charged against me, that in order to rescue the negro soldiers I preferred that 30,000 of our men should starve rather than agree that the negro should not be exchanged. Whatever I might have thought it b