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Atlanta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
owledge of the fact. The sentinel went many feet from the line of his beat, and shot at and killed the captive, the bullet entering his brain. Similar cruelties were practiced at all other Confederate prisons. It appeared in evidence that, at Atlanta, a sick soldier, who was near what was called the dead-line, beyond which prisoners were not allowed to go, put his hand over to pluck a bunch of leaves, that were not a foot from the boundary. The instant he did so, the guard caught sight of honstrative, ambitious, the pet of the Virginians because he was a member of one of their first families--without the moral courage to take the responsibility-so popular with the army that he might have ended the war any time after the capture of Atlanta, as one of the most successful of the Confederate military leaders said to the writer,--Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, never a hundred miles from Richmond after the autumn of 1863, and in constant personal communi
Port Hudson (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
orm of a trial. With such a high hand did the Conspirators exercise their horrid rule at that time, and so utterly perfidious was their conduct in the matter of paroled prisoners, as in the case of Grant's captives at Vicksburg and Banks's at Port Hudson, already mentioned, See page 131. that justice interposed between humanity and policy, and demanded a cessation of all exchanges until the Conspirators should act in accordance with the common usages of civilized nations. When in August, 1ently to my coming on duty here, the events of the war threw upon your hands a large body of paroled officers and men (over 30,000) captured by General Grant at Vicksburg. and not long afterward some 6,000 or more captured by General Banks at Port Hudson. Suddenly, and without any proper conference or understanding with me, and but a few days prier to the important events at Chickamauga, as if for the express purpose of increasing the force of General Bragg against General Rosecrans, you gave
Norwich (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
There was only a single hospital. tent on Belle Isle. The sick were laid on dirty straw, on the ground, with logs for pillows. and every precaution seems to have been taken to secure a daily diminution of the strength of the victims. As at Libby, so on Belle Isle, food and clothing sent to the captives, by friends, were withheld, and often appropriated by the Confederates. Colonel Ely, of the Eighteenth Connecticut, saw one of his men, a school-mate, and highly respectable citizen of Norwich, starving, and was permitted to throw him a ham. When the poor fellow crawled to get it, the rebel guard charged bayonets upon him, called him a damned Yankee, and took the ham themselves. This is only a single item of like testimony of a cloud of witnesses examined by the Committee of the Sanitary Commission. As the weary months drew on, hunger told its inevitable tale on them all. They grew weak and emaciated. Many found that they could not walk; when they attempted it, a dizziness and
Albany (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
The Commission appealed to the people, and the met by a most liberal response. Supplies and money flowed in in sufficient volume to meet all its demands. All over the country, men, women, and children, singly and collectively, were working for it and contributing. to it. Fairs were held in. large cities, which turned immense sums of money into its treasury. Fairs for the benefit of soldiers and their families were held in Lowell, Chicago twice, Boston, Rochester, Cincinnati, Brooklyn, Albany, Cleveland, Poughkeepsie, New York, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Dubuque, St. Paul, St. Louis, and Baltimore, in the order here named. In a single fair, in the city of New York, the net receipts, over the expenses, were $1,181,500. In other places the receipts were in equal proportion to the population. In the little city of Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson, whose population was then about 16.000, the net profits of the fair were over $16,000. Branches were established; agents were employed; corps
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
quarters at Fortress Monroe, and the latter had his at Richmond. Prisoners were sent in boats to and from each place. Aiken's Landing and its vicinity, on the James River, finally became a sort of neutral ground, where the exchanges took place. The operations of exchange were facilitated by the Government, as much as possible, bhich they had purchased, bearing the marks of the Sanitary Commission. Over three thousand boxes, sent to the captives in Libby Prison, and on Belle Isle in the James River, near, were stored close by the former building, where the writer saw a large portion of them, immediately after the evacuation of Richmond. In the few indicter than of those in Libby Prison, for the latter were under shelter. The Richmond bridge of Sighs. Belle Isle was a small island of a few acres, in the James River, in front of Richmond, See engraving on page 288. near the Tredegar Iron Works. A part of it was a grassy bluff, covered with trees, and a part was a low sa
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
to exercise the functions of citizenship. This was followed by the appointment, by the President, of provisional governors for seven of those States, namely, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas, clothed with authority to assemble citizens in convention, who had taken the amnesty oath, States were divided into five military districts, and the following commanders were appointed: First District, Virginia, General J. M. Schofield; Second District, North and South Carolina, General D. E. Sickles; Third District, Georgia, Florida and, Alabama, General J. Pope; Fourth District, Mississippi and Arkansas, General E. O.tional Senators and Representatives, complied with the prescriptions of Congress, they took their places. as resuscitated members of the Union. These were North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Although the country for a considerable time was agitated by the throes of civil
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
anizing the disorganized States, 613. the dangerous plan of the President, 614. the President's disgraceful journey to Chicago, 615. the people's approval of Congressional action, 616. impeachment of the President proposed, 617. the President red immense sums of money into its treasury. Fairs for the benefit of soldiers and their families were held in Lowell, Chicago twice, Boston, Rochester, Cincinnati, Brooklyn, Albany, Cleveland, Poughkeepsie, New York, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Dubuh the pretext of honoring the deceased Senator Douglas by being present at the dedication of a monument to his memory at Chicago, on the 6th of September, made a journey to that city and beyond. He harangued the people in language utterly unbecominy the House. The first charged that the President had, by inflammatory speeches, during his journey from Washington to. Chicago, already mentioned (page 615), attempted, with a design to set aside the authority of Congress, to bring it into disgrac
Montreal (Canada) (search for this): chapter 22
d, in an elaborate report to the Secretary of War, that for the subsistence of a human Yankee carcass a vegetable diet was the most proper that could be adopted. Foote's humane resolution was voted down, and no investigation was allowed, at that time. In the spring of 1865, a committee published a report, in which they admitted the mining of Libby Prison, and, by implication, the charges of cruelty and starvation, but tried to give excuses for the deeds. Foote, in a letter written from Montreal, after the appearance of that report, commented upon it severely, and declared that a Government officer of respectability told him that a systematic scheme was on foot for subjecting these un fortunate men to starvation. He further declared that Northrup's fiendish proposition was indorsed by Seddon, the Secretary of War, who said, substantially, in that endorsement, that the time had arrived for retaliation upon the prisoners of war of the enemy. In that letter Foote proved, (1) That th
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 22
e Sanitary Commission, 609. origin of the United States Christian Commission, 610. workings of thUnited States Sanitary Commission, and the United States Christian Commission, and the untiring labUnited States Sanitary Commission, and the United States Christian Commission. These were mighty aghad not voluntarily borne arms against the United States since he had been a citizen thereof, or vo troops in Mexico was not agreeable to the United States, and on the 5th of April, 1866. Napoleon'ice-President, and Acting-President of the United States, with the commission of acts which, in therivileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person ofd any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previouslember of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State Legislature, , shall not be questioned: but neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt[26 more...]
St. Paul (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 22
. Supplies and money flowed in in sufficient volume to meet all its demands. All over the country, men, women, and children, singly and collectively, were working for it and contributing. to it. Fairs were held in. large cities, which turned immense sums of money into its treasury. Fairs for the benefit of soldiers and their families were held in Lowell, Chicago twice, Boston, Rochester, Cincinnati, Brooklyn, Albany, Cleveland, Poughkeepsie, New York, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Dubuque, St. Paul, St. Louis, and Baltimore, in the order here named. In a single fair, in the city of New York, the net receipts, over the expenses, were $1,181,500. In other places the receipts were in equal proportion to the population. In the little city of Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson, whose population was then about 16.000, the net profits of the fair were over $16,000. Branches were established; agents were employed; corps of nurses were organized; ambulances, army wagons and steamboats of its own we
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