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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 38: (search)
ted not only in the United States, but in some parts of the South, and in Europe. One of these is the report of the joint select committee of the Northern Congress on the conduct of the war, known as Report no. 67. The other purports to be a Narrative of the privations and sufferings of United States officers and soldiers while prisoners of war, and is issued as a report of a commission of enquiry appointed by The United States Sanitary Commission. This body is alleged to consist of Valentine Mott, M. D., Edward Delafield, M. D., Gouverneur Morris Wilkins, Esq., Ellerslie Wallace, M. D.,--Ion. J. J. Clarke Hare, and Rev. Treadwell Walden. Although these persons are not of sufficient public importance and weight to give authority to their publication, yet your committee have deemed it proper to notice it in connection with the Report no. 67, before mentioned, because the Sanitary Commission has been understood to have acted to a greater extent under the control and by the authori