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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Report of Colonel D. T. Chandler, (search)
columns with so long a communication, but I could not well do justice to the subject in less space. Yours, respectfully, Ro. Ould. We will add an explanation of another letter which purports to have been written by Judge Ould during the war, and which has been widely 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 corn, pay no regard to the Yankee prisoners. I would rather they should starve than our own people suffer. I suppose I can safely put it in writing, Let them suffer. Very truly, your faithful friend, Ro. Ould. Colonel A. C. Myers. Judge Ould says that he does not remember ever to have written such a letter, and we have searched his letter-book (in which he was accustomed to h