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Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
re, necessary for our purpose that we should go into any Defence of General Winder. And yet, as an act of simple justice to the memory of this officer, we give the following letters: Sabot Hill, December 29, 1875. Mr. W. S. Winder, Baltimore: Dear Sir — Your letter reached me some two weeks since, and I have been prevented by serious indisposition from giving it an early reply. I take pleasure in rendering my emphatic testimony to relieve the character and reputation of your Dr. Winder speaks of the statement as having been already several times published. We do not remember to have seen it before. At any rate, it will well bear repetition, and will come in very pertinently, apropos of the recent debate: Baltimore, November 16, 1875. Major W. T. Walthall: My Dear Sir — Your letter of the 25th of last month was duly received, and except from sickness should have been replied to long ago. I take pleasure in giving you the facts which you request, but t
West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
graph in the letter; that it so manifestly appeared from the context; that every word in the paragraph was true, both as to the class received and those sent off; that not one Confederate soldier in service was received at that time; that scarcely any one of the three hundred and fifty had been in prison a month; that all of them had been recently arrested as sympathizers with the Confederate cause; that those sent off were miserable wretches indeed, mostly robbers and incendiaries from Western Virginia, who were Confederates when Confederate armies occupied their country, and Unionists when Federal troops held it, and who in turn preyed upon one side and the other, and so pillaged that portion of the State that it had almost been given over to desolation; that they were men without character or principle, who were ready to take any oath or engage in any work of plunder; that I then reiterated what I had before written — that they were a set of miserable wretches ; that the Federal sol
Andersonville, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
us was the horrible condition of things at Andersonville brought home to the Secretary of War, one report disclosed such a state of things at Andersonville, that he had brought it to me, in order thhowed the terrible mortality prevailing at Andersonville, instructed him to go down James river at who was informed of the state of things at Andersonville; that he communicated this proposition to . The responsibility of the lives lost at Andersonville rests, since July, 1864, on General Meredimfort and preservation of the prisoners at Andersonville that the circumstances rendered possible. . S. also denies that the mortality at Andersonville was greater after I proposed to deliver thAfter August there were fewer prisoners at Andersonville. They were removed to other depots. The and make him responsible for the crimes of Andersonville. The captured Confederate archives were sis in connection with a single atrocity at Andersonville or elsewhere. The gentleman from Maine, w[20 more...]
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
s I thought, to compass the death of Mr. Davis and Mr. Seddon, who were not technically on trial, but were alleged to have conspired with Wirz and others to kill and murder the Federal prisoners, &c. One was immured in irons in a casemate of Fortress Monroe, the other was in a casemate in Fort Pulaski. Believing that their lives were in danger, I sought Mr. L. Q. Washington, who was then in Washington, and communicated to him the apprehensions I felt, and urged him to communicate them to Mr. St an even stronger point remains. After despairing of convicting Mr. Davis on any testimony which they had or could procure, they tried to bribe poor Wirz to save his own life by swearing away the life of Mr. Davis, who was then in irons at Fortress Monroe. Mr. Hill thus strongly puts it: Now, sir, there is another fact. Wirz was put on trial, but really Mr. Davis was the man intended to be tried through him. Over one hundred and sixty witnesses were introduced before the military comm
Belle Isle, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
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
Johnson's Island (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
ield 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 witoners by the Federal authorities. We ask that any of our friends who have material illustrating any branch of this subject will forward it to us at once. We have a number of diaries of prison life by Confederates who did not find Elmira, Johnson's Island, Fort Delaware, Rock Island, Camp Douglas, Camp Chase, &c., quite so pleasant as Mr. Blaine's rose-colored picture of Northern prisons would make it appear. And we have also strong testimony from Federal soldiers and citizens of the North a
Rock Island, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
is by no means exhausted, and we shall take up the subject again in our next issue. We propose to discuss still further the question of exchange, and then to pass to a consideration of the treatment of Confederate prisoners by the Federal authorities. We ask that any of our friends who have material illustrating any branch of this subject will forward it to us at once. We have a number of diaries of prison life by Confederates who did not find Elmira, Johnson's Island, Fort Delaware, Rock Island, Camp Douglas, Camp Chase, &c., quite so pleasant as Mr. Blaine's rose-colored picture of Northern prisons would make it appear. And we have also strong testimony from Federal soldiers and citizens of the North as to the truth of our version of the prison question. But we would be glad to receive further statements bearing on this. whole question, as we desire to prepare for the future historian the fullest possible material for the vindication of our slandered people. To those who
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
and distribute such contributions of money, food, clothing and medicine, as might be forwarded for the relief of prisoners; or the charge that I offered to the United States authorities their sick and wounded, without requiring any equivalent; or the charge that I offered to make purchases of medicines from the United States authorUnited States authorities, to be used exclusively for the relief of Federal prisoners, paying therefor in gold, cotton or tobacco, at double or thrice the price, if required, and giving assurances that the medicines so bought would be used exclusively in the treatment of Federal prisoners, and, indeed, that they might be brought within our lines by Feely circulated in the Radical papers as proof positive of inexcusable cruelty to prisoners. The popular version of this letter is as follows: Confederate States of America, war Department, Richmond, Virginia, March 21, 1863. My Dear Sir — If the exigencies of our army require the use of trains for the transportation of
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
in the present heated and embittered condition of political affairs would result in no practical use, and might possibly create unnecessary prejudice against those now living and to Southern interests. Very truly yours, George W. Brent. New Orleans, February 15, 1876. My Dear Sir — I regret to find from your letter of inquiry, that General Sherman seeks to extenuate one of those violations of the rules of civilized warfare, which characterized his campaign through Georgia and South Carolina, by the easily refuted slander upon the Confederate army to which you call my attention, namely: That in his employment of Confederate prisoners during that campaign to search and dig up torpedoes, he acted only in retaliation for the like employment of Federal prisoners by Confederate commanders — an assertion reckless even for General Sherman, whose heedlessness of what he writes and speaks was notorious before the appearance of his Memoirs. I myself can recall no occasion when Fede
Fort McAllister (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
fall of Savannah, that General Sherman himself had put Confederate prisoners to this extraordinary use in his approach to that city, as also at the capture of Fort McAllister, and I thereupon made, through my Chief of Staff, Colonel G. W. Brent, a requisition on our Commissary of Prisoners of War, General Winder, for a detachment oelp laughing at their stepping so gingerly along the road where it was supposed sunken torpedoes might explode at eack step, but they found no other till near Fort McAllister. Here we have his own confession that he pushed a mass of unarmed men, prisoners of war, ahead of his column to explode torpedoes, which he apprehended werts mention of another instance of this unwarrantable employment of prisoners of war. After General Hazen (on December 13) had handsomely assaulted and carried Fort McAllister, General Sherman, in person, ordered the Confederate engineer officer of the fort, with men of that garrison then prisoners, to remove all the torpedoes in fr
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