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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)
e for them. The weather on January 1st was the most intensely cold I ever experienced; and from all parts of the prison came intelligence of prisoners frozen to death. One died in one of my companies. He was reported to me, and I placed my hand on the corpse; it was frozen. This is the first time I have mentioned it. I cannot say that he froze to death. John A. Bateson, 115the E. V. R. C., Second Battalion. We have a long Statement of John J. Van-Allen, of Watkins, Schuyler county, New York, from which we make the following extract: Late in the fall of 1864, and when the bitter sleets and biting frosts of winter had commenced, a relief organization was improvised by some of the generous ladies and gentlemen of the city of Baltimore for the purpose of alleviating the wants of those confined in the Elmira Prison, where there were then several thousand prisoners. I had the honor to be appointed by that organization to ascertain the needs of the prisoners, to distr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Molly Maguires, the (search)
opened up in Pennsylvania there was a large demand for laborers, and many of the best of the working-classes answered the call; but with these were numbers of the floating, drifting, unstable. In early war times vague rumors were abroad that these restless elements in the neighborhood of Pottsville had crystallized, and that an order called the Black spots was in existence there. In 1862 it was rumored that a powerful society called the Buckshot was exercising an unwholesome influence in Schuyler and Luzerne counties. Both these organizations have had laid at their doors crimes of various kinds, assaults, arson, and even murder. It was in the midst of such lawlessness that the Molly Maguires grew rapidly, and in such communities that their deeds of darkness and bloodshed were perpetrated. To give even a record of the murders and outrages they committed would take a large volume. Those which are known are numbered by the hundred, and the unfortunate victims in most cases were gen