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Americus (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
r inability? The mere fact that I offered these prisoners, without requiring equivalents, is very strong proof of itself of our inability. But were sick men to be physicked with bacon, meal, flour, rice, syrup and whiskey, which were stored at Americus and elsewhere in Southwestern Georgia? I offered to send off the sick and wounded wherever they might be, at Andersonville and elsewhere. We had no medicines — the blockade was rigid — the Federal authorities had declined to send any medicinesknow that there were others besides the prisoners at Andersonville, who were to be cared for? We had a large army in the field. We had our own hospitals to supply. Our armies everywhere were drawing from Georgia. It was because the stores at Americus, Albany and elsewhere were not sufficient to supply both prisoners and our own soldiers, that I made the propositions to the Federal authorities which I have heretofore mentioned. S. also denies that the mortality at Andersonville was greate
Lynchburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
sary in this latitude), that Mr. Kean is now Rector of the University of Virginia, and is an accomplished scholar and a high-toned Christian gentleman, whose lightest word may be implicitly relied upon. Mr. Kean has sent us the following letter, which, though hastily written and not designed for publication, gives so clear a history of this report that we shall take the liberty of publishing it in full: Letter of Hon. B. G. H. Kean, Chief clerk of the Confederate war Department. Lynchburg, Va., March 22, 1876. Rev. J. William Jones, Secretary Southern Historical Society: My Dear Sir-Yours of the 20th is received this A. M., and I snatch the time from the heart of a busy day to reply immediately, because I feel that there is no more imperious call on a Confederate than to do what he may to hurl back the vile official slanders of the Federal Government at Washington in 1865, when Holt, Conover & Co., with a pack of since convicted perjurers, were doing all in their power to b
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
ed from that city to Andersonville, Thank God that Richmond is at last rid of old Winder; God have mercy upon ain to report to General Terry, then in command in Richmond. He informed me that I was wanted, and had long biling at Andersonville, instructed him to go down James river at once with his flag-of-truce boat, see General not one scintilla of proof that the Government at Richmond ordered, approved or in any way countenanced theironduct towards the Federal prisoners; for those in Richmond, where he was almost daily in official communicati of his claims in behalf of the prisoners while in Richmond, controversies would arise between him and the Comentire except the introductory paragraphs: Richmond, Va., October 5th, 1875. * * * * * * * * I will nmplicity in the murder of Federal prisoners. When Richmond was evacuated in April, 1865, this letter was founonfederate States of America, war Department, Richmond, Virginia, March 21, 1863. My Dear Sir — If the exig
Charlottesville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
there is no more imperious call on a Confederate than to do what he may to hurl back the vile official slanders of the Federal Government at Washington in 1865, when Holt, Conover & Co., with a pack of since convicted perjurers, were doing all in their power to blacken the fame of a people whose presence they have since found and acknowledged to be indispensable to any semblance of purity in their administration of affairs. In September, 1865, I was required by the then commandant at Charlottesville to report immediately to him. The summons was brought to me in the field, where in my shirt sleeves I was assisting in the farming operations of my father-in-law, Colonel T. J. Randolph, and his eldest son, Major T. J. Randolph. I obeyed, and was sent by the next train to report to General Terry, then in command in Richmond. He informed me that I was wanted, and had long been sought for, to testify before the Commission engaged in trying Wirz, and I was sent to Washington by the next
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
s been that the authorities at Washington considered thirty thousand men, just in the rear of General Johnston's army in Georgia, drawing their rations from the same stores from which his army had to be fed, would be better used up there than in then seeks to extenuate one of those violations of the rules of civilized warfare, which characterized his campaign through Georgia and South Carolina, by the easily refuted slander upon the Confederate army to which you call my attention, namely: Thatn to be physicked with bacon, meal, flour, rice, syrup and whiskey, which were stored at Americus and elsewhere in Southwestern Georgia? I offered to send off the sick and wounded wherever they might be, at Andersonville and elsewhere. We had no meed for? We had a large army in the field. We had our own hospitals to supply. Our armies everywhere were drawing from Georgia. It was because the stores at Americus, Albany and elsewhere were not sufficient to supply both prisoners and our own s
Washington, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
cost, for every clear infraction of the set-tled laws of war; for history shows it to be the only effectual method of recalling an enemy from inhuman courses. Washington never hesitated to apply the painful remedy during our Revolutionary war. I am yours, most truly, G. T. Beauregard. W. H. Winder, Esq., New York, N. Y. letter was more fortunate than I was, for I was not permitted to appear. Wirz had summoned me through the proper channel as a witness in his behalf. I went to Washington in obedience to the summons, and was in attendance upon the court martial. While in such attendance my subpoena was revoked by the Judge-Advocate, and I was dir of Confederates were seeking to make favor with the powers of the Government. Yet, sir, during those three months, with all the witnesses they could bring to Washington, not one single man ever mentioned the name of Mr. Davis in connection with a single atrocity at Andersonville or elsewhere. The gentleman from Maine, with. a
Libby (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
t, they did it without scruple or mercy. The responsibility of the lives lost at Andersonville rests, since July, 1864, on General Meredith, Commissary-General of Prisoners, and (chiefly) on Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. No one of sound head or heart would now hold the Northern people responsible for these things. The blood is on the skirts of their then rulers; and neither Mr. Garfield nor Mr. Blaine can change the record. I never heard that there was any particular suffering at Libby or Belle Isle, and do not believe there was. Crowded prisons are not comfortable places, as our poor fellows found at Fort Delaware, Johnson's Island, &c. I have at this late day no means of refreshing my memory in regard to the general orders on the subject of prison treatment, but this as a general fact I do know, that Mr. Davis' humanity was considered to be a stronger sentiment with him than public justice, and it was a common remark that no soldier capitally convicted was ever execut
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
le official slanders of the Federal Government at Washington in 1865, when Holt, Conover & Co., with a pack ofmission engaged in trying Wirz, and I was sent to Washington by the next train. I attended promptly, but it w with the report, and caused me to be summoned to Washington to trace it into the hands of the Secretary of War, I sought Mr. L. Q. Washington, who was then in Washington, and communicated to him the apprehensions I feltip Welford, a gentleman of great intelligence, to Washington to see what was best to be done to protect her he's investigations and conferences with friends in Washington, was that it was not deemed judicious for Mr. Sed through the usual channels, he went in person to Washington, into the office of Secretary Stanton, told him t and ever since, has been that the authorities at Washington considered thirty thousand men, just in the rear e same statement to his counsel, Mr. Schade, of Washington city, and he has also, under his own signature, publ
Montreal (Canada) (search for this): chapter 3.18
traged feelings yet surviving our terrible struggle, it may be hard still to have justice awarded to the true merits and noble qualities of your father, but in future and happier times I doubt not all mists of error obscuring his name and fame will be swept away under the light of impartial investigation, and he will be honored and revered, as he ought to be, among the most faithful patriots and gallant soldiers of the Southern Confederacy. Very truly yours, James A. Seddon. [Copy.] Montreal, 20th June, 1867. My Dear Sir--* * * I have never doubted that all had been done for the comfort and preservation of the prisoners at Andersonville that the circumstances rendered possible. General Winder I had known from my first entrance into the United States army as a gallant soldier and an honorable gentleman. Cruelty to those in his power, defenceless and sick men, was inconsistent with the character of either a soldier or a gentleman. I was always, therefore, confident that th
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 3.18
to the hazard of exploding them and deserve credit for the act! A strange obliquity in the general-in-chief of an army which has, at the present moment, a special torpedo corps attached to it as an important defensive resource to fortified places; in one who, moreover, was carefully taught at West Point how to plant the equivalent of torpedoes as known to engineers of that date--i. e., crows'-feet, trous-de-loups, fougasses, mines, etc. For my part, from the day of the capitulation of Fort Sumter, in 1861, when, in order to save a brave soldier and his command from all unnecessary humiliation, I allowed Major Anderson the same terms offered him before the attack--i. e., to salute his flag with fifty guns, and to go forth with colors flying and drums beating,. taking off company and private property — down to the close of the war, I always favored and practiced liberal treatment of prisoners. At the same time, however, I always urged the policy of rigid and prompt retaliation, at
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