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The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee faith and Yankee Cruelty (search)
Yankee faith and Yankee Cruelty
The Yankee authorities, since they have the advantage in prisoners, have kept our men in their hands confined in miserable, unhealthy prisons, and refused to exchange them for prisoners in our hands.
Among the prisons in which they have been immured is Fort Delaware, on the Delaware river, below Philadelphia.
It is represented to be one of the most uncomfortable and unhealthy places in which men ever were confined.
It is a scene of mire and filth.
The men lie on the muddy ground and drink water from the muddy cisterns, and are daily wasting away their health and strength.
On Saturday the enemy sent by flag of truce near seven hundred wounded and sick — some of them from this loathsome prison.
Nine of them died before they reached Petersburg.
What this nation is to do towards an enemy who has proved himself utterly unfeeling and brutal, it is difficult to say. The Yankee Government has violated the cartel for the exchange of prisoners whe