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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The treatment of prisoners during the war between the States. (search)
the statements of galvanized rebels, so called; that is, prisoners who had applied for permission to take the oath, or of prisoners who had little offices in the various pens, which they would lose on the whisper of any thing disagreeable, and their testimony is entitled to the general credit of depositions taken under duress. But among these documentary statements, in glorification of the humanity of the Great Republic, is one on page 89, from Miss Dix, the grand female dry-nurse of Yankee Doodle (who, by the by, gave, I understand, unpardonable offence to the pulchritude of Yankeedom, by persistently refusing to employ any but ugly women as nurses--the vampire)--which affirms that the prisoners at Point Lookout were supplied with vegetables, with the best of wheat bread, and fresh and salt meat three times daily in abundant measure. Common gallantry forbids the characterization of this remarkable extract in harsher terms than to say that it is untrue in every particular. I