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The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Yankee Opinion of the treatment of their prisoners by the Confederates. (search)
n by some of our exchanged prisoners who arrived at Annapolis yesterday. We quote from a letter thence to the Times, (an Administration organ:) Lieut. Col. James M. Sanderson, Chief Commissary of Subsistence of the 1st army corps, utterly and flatly contradicts the statements respecting the issue of "mule ment" at the Libbyfootsore and weary prisoners he recaptured after their attempt to escape with the famous "one hundred and ten" last month, is very gratefully remembered. Col. Sanderson discredits the statement made by some negroes that a thousand pounds of powder have been placed in a pit under the prison to blow it up with all its inmates, nt would exist. But holding a very subordinate position, he finds himself constantly trammeled in every effort to improve or ameliorate their condition. Col. Sanderson and others of the officers and men are justly indignant at the attempt of certain returned prisoners to make "martyrs" of themselves by the publication of exa