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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 22: prisoners.-benevolent operations during the War.--readjustment of National affairs.--conclusion. (search)
e south, and with his. field-glass, looked into the ghastly faces of the starved, blistered, freezing captives on Belle Isle; See page 423, volume I. or he might have walked down Cary Street, for the space of eight minutes, and looked into Libby Prison to satisfy himself whether a committee of the Confederate Congress, had told the truth or not. He seems not to have considered such inquiries proper to be imposed upon him as a department commander, as general-in-chief, as a man, or as a. Christian. As regards myself, I never had any control over the prisoners, except those that were captured on the. field of battle. These, it was my business to send to Richmond, to the proper officer, who was then the provost-marshal-general. In regard to their disposition afterward, I had no control. I never gave an order about it. It was entirely in the hands of the War Department. --Lee's testimony before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction. See Report, page 135. His remarkable ignorance