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Sergeant Oats, Prison Life in Dixie: giving a short history of the inhuman and barbarous treatment of our soldiers by rebel authorities, Speech of Gen. Garfield at the Andersonville Reunion at Toledo Ohio, October 3, 1879. (search)
Speech of Gen. Garfield at the Andersonville Reunion at Toledo Ohio, October 3, 1879. My comrades: ladies and gentlemen: I have addressr hand against your flag, you are free! A voice-That's so! Gen. Garfield- And you shall have food. and you shall have clothing. and yo and mother, and child. A voice-We didn't do it, though. Gen. Garfield-And do you know that out of that one hundred and eighty-eight tfirst moment there was an opportunity. A voice-That's so. Gen. Garfield-But one hundred and eighty-five thousand out of the one hundred to the last gasp. Voices-Yes, we will! That's so! etc. Gen. Garfield-Well, now, fellow-citizens and fellow-soldiers-but I am not wor He was a liar! [Groans, hisses, and a storm of indignation.] Gen. Garfield-I heard him declare that no kinder men ever lived than Gen. Winl for atrocity in the civilized world. A voice-That's so! Gen. Garfield-It was never heard of in any land since the dark ages closed up