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The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], Shocking scenes. (search)
Shocking scenes. There appears to have been no exaggeration in the accounts already given in regard to the condition of the negroes at the various contraband camp in the Mississippi Valley. Congregated at these depots, without employment, deprived of the food to which they have been accustomed, and often without shelter or medical care, these helpless creatures perish as if swept off by pestilence.--Wm. D. Butler, a delegate of the United States Christian Commission, writes to Rev. Dr. W. G Ellot as follows respecting the negroes who came into Vicksburg after the surrender of General Pemberton, mostly from beyond Jackson: About the first of August the military authorities became alarmed lost a pestilence should break out among them and extend to the army. Peremptory orders were issued to at once remove across the river all negroes, of every age and sex, whether-sick or well, who were not in some employment. One morning I went out to inform a certain Lieut. W--,who,