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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Prisoners North and South. (search)
Prisoners North and South. Interesting statistics as to mortality among prisoners during the war. To the Editor of The Republican The tone of fairness which is evident in your editorial of September 4th on Rebel Prisoners at Camp Morton emboldens me to write you concerning the treatment of prisoners during our late unhappy war. I should deeply regret the result of a discussion of this subject should it arouse animosities or rekindle feelings of bitterness. After more than a quarter of a century has elapsed the survivors or the partisans of both sides in that terrible conflict should be able—unblinded by passions natural to and engendered in the tumult of war, and unbiased by predjudice—calmly to discuss the merits and demerits of either side of this question. That which we term civilized warfare is realy only semi-civilized. On either side the lot of the soldier was hard at best, and the lot of the prisoner was still harder. This is the history of all wars in all c