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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 address r 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 t first 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!
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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. Win l 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