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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Appendix. (search)
ntry will not permit us to bring this matter to the attention of Congress, thereby making the matter public. When Gen. John H. Winder was sent from Richmond to Andersonville prison to take charge, the Richmond Examiner said: Thank God that Richmond is at last rid of old Winder! God have mercy upon those to whom he has been sent! Of this Winder, Col. D. T. Chandler, Inspector-General, wrote in his report of Andersonville to his department of the Confederate army on Aug. 5, 1864:— My duty requires me to recommend a change in commander of the post, Brigadier-General Winder, and the substitution in his place of one who unites both energy and good judgment with some feeling of humanity and consideration for the welfare and comfort (so fa The indorsement upon this letter, referring it, shows that President Davis, J. W. Campbell, acting Secretary of War, General Winder, and other high officials saw it. It covered an article from a correspondent of the Sumter Watchman from which the fo