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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 44: (search)
ncy, in the great mortality of the soldiers we had captured during the war and imprisoned at Andersonville. See chapter on exchange of prisoners. Orders were therefore issued by the authoritiecording to law was denied him. Captain Wirz had been in command at the Confederate prison at Andersonville. The first charge alleged against him was that of conspiring with myself, Secretary Seddon, to assure Wirz that, if he would implicate Jefferson Davis with the atrocities committed at Andersonville, his sentence should be commuted. He (the messenger, whoever he was) requested me to informot know anything about Jefferson Davis. He had no connection with me as to what was done at Andersonville. If I knew anything of him, I would not become a traitor against him or anybody else to sav that Major Wirz would be pardoned if he would implicate Jefferson Davis in the cruelties of Andersonville. No names were given by this messenger, and, upon my refusal to take any action in the matt
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 48: (search)
t, to fall back to Lovejoy's, seven miles south of Jonesboro on the Macon and Western Railroad. Thus the main body of the Federal army was between Hardee and Atlanta, and the immediate evacuation of that city became a necessity. There was an additional and cogent reason for that movement. Owing to the obstinately cruel policy which the United States government had pursued for some time, of refusing on any terms to exchange prisoners of war, upward of thirty thousand prisoners were at Andersonville in southwestern Georgia at this time. To guard against the release and arming of these prisoners, General Hood thought it necessary to place our army between them and the enemy, and abandon the project, which he thought feasible, of moving on Sherman's communications and destroying his depots of supplies at Marietta. Upon abandoning Atlanta, Hood marched his army in a westerly direction, and formed a junction with the two corps which had been operating at Jonesboro and Lovejoy's unde
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 49: (search)
ort of Butler responsibility of Grant for Andersonville barbarities of the United States governmeisoners would be held long in confinement, Andersonville in Georgia was selected for the location o the general control of prisoners, went to Andersonville in June and found disease prevailing to sujor Wirz thereafter remained in command at Andersonville, and the testimony of Chief Surgeon Stevenson, of the hospital at Andersonville, bears testimony to the success with which Wirz improved the sending a delegation from the prisoners at Andersonville to plead their cause before the authoritieer, Henry M. Brennan, writes: I was at Andersonville when the delegation of prisoners spoken oft of the responsibility for the horrors of Andersonville rests with General U. S. Grant, who refusestilence of the prison-pens of Raleigh and Andersonville, being more than all the British soldiers h a delegation of the Federal prisoners at Andersonville, it sought to attract the notice of their [3 more...]