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Rock Island, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.91
ir name of the Confederacy by an utter misrepresentation of the facts — and northern writers have most industriously circulated against us baseless slanders, which they have succeeded in making many of their own people, and of foreign nations believe. We have shown by facts which have not been, and cannot be successfully, controverted that in this whole matter the Federal, and not the Confederate, authorities were responsible for the suffering of prisoners on both sides, and that Elmira, Rock Island, Point Lookout, &c., are really more in need of defence than Andersonville, with all of its admitted horrors. 2. He makes various quotations from Pollard (notably from his Secret history, so-called), when a man of his intelligence ought to know that Pollard's unsupported assertion is of not the slightest value on any mooted historic question, especially when he gets an opportunity of venting his bitter personal hatred against President Davis. 3. While Professor Richardson is very fa
Andersonville, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.91
son question again--Prof. Rufus B. Richardson on Andersonville. When in March and April, 1876, we published his effort to wipe out the ineffaceable crime of Andersonville, but no serious attempt at a reply, which we sawr for November, 1880, an elaborate discussion of Andersonville which is so much fairer than anything that has put, &c., are really more in need of defence than Andersonville, with all of its admitted horrors. 2. He make is very fair in his apologies for sufferings at Andersonville, he seems very skeptical as to the reality of muvents actually turned, the men who languished at Andersonville played, in their sufferings and death, a most esion with a statement of the fearful mortality at Andersonville, assured the authorities that it was from causesg this period the greatest mortality occurred at Andersonville. Add these points to the admission of Professexchanges, and it will be seen that the crime of Andersonville, and of Elmira, lies not at our door, but was a
Point Lookout, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.91
Confederacy by an utter misrepresentation of the facts — and northern writers have most industriously circulated against us baseless slanders, which they have succeeded in making many of their own people, and of foreign nations believe. We have shown by facts which have not been, and cannot be successfully, controverted that in this whole matter the Federal, and not the Confederate, authorities were responsible for the suffering of prisoners on both sides, and that Elmira, Rock Island, Point Lookout, &c., are really more in need of defence than Andersonville, with all of its admitted horrors. 2. He makes various quotations from Pollard (notably from his Secret history, so-called), when a man of his intelligence ought to know that Pollard's unsupported assertion is of not the slightest value on any mooted historic question, especially when he gets an opportunity of venting his bitter personal hatred against President Davis. 3. While Professor Richardson is very fair in his apol
Newtown (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.91
ons believe. We have shown by facts which have not been, and cannot be successfully, controverted that in this whole matter the Federal, and not the Confederate, authorities were responsible for the suffering of prisoners on both sides, and that Elmira, Rock Island, Point Lookout, &c., are really more in need of defence than Andersonville, with all of its admitted horrors. 2. He makes various quotations from Pollard (notably from his Secret history, so-called), when a man of his intelligencet control, and repeatedly urged the prompt acceptance of his proposition. And yet this humane offer was not accepted until December; and during this period the greatest mortality occurred at Andersonville. Add these points to the admission of Professor Richardson, that the United States Government was responsible for the failure of exchanges, and it will be seen that the crime of Andersonville, and of Elmira, lies not at our door, but was a part of the cruel war policy of Secretary Stanton.
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.91
（c.) They failed to avail themselves of our offer to allow their surgeons to come and bring medicines and supplies, and minister to their prisoners in our hands, even though we were denied a like privilege of ministering to our poor fellows in their hands. （d.) They refused to exchange sick and wounded. （e.) After all efforts at effecting an exchange, or at mitigating the sufferings of prisoners had failed, Judge Ould in August, 1864, proposed that if they would send transportation to Savannah he would turn over to them, without equivalent, from ten to fifteen thousand prisoners. He acompanied this proposition with a statement of the fearful mortality at Andersonville, assured the authorities that it was from causes which the Confederacy could not control, and repeatedly urged the prompt acceptance of his proposition. And yet this humane offer was not accepted until December; and during this period the greatest mortality occurred at Andersonville. Add these points to the admi<
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.91
of which we heard. A year later the Nation attempted a reply which we published in full in our Papers, and to which we made, what judicious friends in whom we had confidence pronounced a triumphant rejoinder. The Nation declined our proposition to have a full discussion of the whole question which should appear in both journals, refused to reciprocate our courtesy by publishing the reply to their strictures, and thus the matter ended. Some eighteen months ago Rev. Howard Miller, of Pennsylvania, to whom we had given a copy of our Confederate view of the treatment of prisoners, published our summing up in the Philadelphia Times, and asked for a refutation of these remarkable statements. We wrote to Mr. Miller requesting that he would forward us any replies that might be made, but none have appeared so far as we have been able so ascertain. Now these papers were prepared much more hastily than was desirable, we lacked many important documents, our work was merely one of compilat
Waterloo, Ala. (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.91
ough a year will always remain an interesting question. But at any rate, as the course of events actually turned, the men who languished at Andersonville played, in their sufferings and death, a most essential part in the campaign. This part was not so stirring as charging on the guns, or meeting in the clash of infantry lines, but their enforced, long-continued hardship made it possible for mere superiority of numbers to decide the struggle, and for the Confederacy to crumble without its Waterloo, and to terminate its existence by the surrender of those less than eight thousand muskets at Appomattox. Now all this is exceedingly candid and fair, but we beg to remind the Professor of some additional points which are needed to complete the proper understanding of the whole question. (a). In January, 1864, Judge Ould, our commissioner of exchange, proposed to General Hitchcock, the Federal agent, that surgeons from both sides should be allowed to attend their own prisoners, and that
Bloomington (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.91
ave been able so ascertain. Now these papers were prepared much more hastily than was desirable, we lacked many important documents, our work was merely one of compilation, and we take no credit whatever to ourselves, and yet we do affirm that the facts presented have not been met, and are an unanswerable vindication of the Confederate Government from the charges of cruelty to prisoners, so recklessly made and so persistently repeated. But Professor Rufus B. Richardson, Ph. D., of Bloomington, Indiana, has in the New Englander for November, 1880, an elaborate discussion of Andersonville which is so much fairer than anything that has previously appeared on that side, and which, indeed, so completely surrenders the whole question, by admitting that the United States Government alone was responsible for the failure of the cartel for the exchange of prisoners [and, as a consequence, for the detention and suffering of prisoners on both sides] that we would publish it in full but for its
Pollard (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 8.91
own by facts which have not been, and cannot be successfully, controverted that in this whole matter the Federal, and not the Confederate, authorities were responsible for the suffering of prisoners on both sides, and that Elmira, Rock Island, Point Lookout, &c., are really more in need of defence than Andersonville, with all of its admitted horrors. 2. He makes various quotations from Pollard (notably from his Secret history, so-called), when a man of his intelligence ought to know that Pollard's unsupported assertion is of not the slightest value on any mooted historic question, especially when he gets an opportunity of venting his bitter personal hatred against President Davis. 3. While Professor Richardson is very fair in his apologies for sufferings at Andersonville, he seems very skeptical as to the reality of much suffering, on the part of our prisoners at the north. Let any one interested turn to some of the narratives which we published in our number for April, 1876--s
Sadowa (Czech Republic) (search for this): chapter 8.91
the whole case makes it certain that the United States Government was responsible for the failure of exchanges during the last year of the war, and that to its policy in this matter it owes, in a large measure, its final success. [Italics ours.] He justifies this as a war measure, condemns the Government for not frankly avowing this policy, and concludes his article. with the following tribute to the Federal soldiers who died in prison: Whether there was not a possibility of a Waterloo or Sadowa on the Rapidan instead of an attrition campaign continued through a year will always remain an interesting question. But at any rate, as the course of events actually turned, the men who languished at Andersonville played, in their sufferings and death, a most essential part in the campaign. This part was not so stirring as charging on the guns, or meeting in the clash of infantry lines, but their enforced, long-continued hardship made it possible for mere superiority of numbers to decide
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