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he most opprobious character. Henry C. Lull, sergeant One Hundred and Forty-sixth N. Y. Infantry, testifies,— No medicine was given to colored soldiers, although they were sick with the scurvy and other diseases, and applied to the surgeon for them. I saw them take one of the colored soldiers, and strip him, and give him thirty lashes until the blood ran, and his back was all cut up. This was because he was not able to go out and work as he had been in the habit of doing. Oliver B. Fairbanks, Ninth N. Y. Cavalry, testifies in answer to the question whether there were colored soldiers in Andersonville,— There were a few,—I should say fifty altogether; but most of them had lost a leg or an arm, or were badly wounded in some way. They seemed to have a particular spite toward the colored soldiers, and they had to go without rations several days at a time on account of not daring to go forward and get them. Walter M. Mitchell, Tenth N. Y. Infantry, says in his evidence<