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were reduced to devouring rats and refuse; the general malicious ill-treatment of prisoners, and the shooting down without cause of innocent men. Major Keiley is too well known at the North, as well as at the South, to admit of a doubt being cast upon his statements.
He has also much to say concerning the kindness shown the Confederate prisoners by individuals at the North, and even by Federal officers.
One of the latter was threatened with court-martial for this cause, when he replied that in that case he would have a startling story to make public of the inhuman treatment of the Confederate prisoners.
Mr. Keiley significantly adds, ‘He was not molested.’
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