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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial paragraphs. (search)
d to accept the Confederate offer to allow Federal surgeons to come to the prisons with supplies of medicines and stores. 4. The prisons were established with reference to healthfulness of locality, and the great mortality among the prisoners arose from epidemics and chronic diseases, which our surgeons had not the means of preventing or arresting. A strong proof of this will be given in an official statement which shows that nearly as large a proportion of the Confederate guard at Andersonville died as of the prisoners themselves. 5. The above reasons cannot be assigned for the cruel treatment which Confederates received in Northern prisons. The order-books on that side are filled with vindictive orders. Though in a land flowing with plenty, our poor fellows in prison were famished with hunger, and would have considered half the rations served Federal soldiers bountiful indeed. Their prison hospitals were very far from being on the same footing with the hospitals for thei
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The treatment of prisoners during the war between the States. (search)
fully, of the gigantic murder and crime at Andersonville. And I here, before God, measuring my worare in atrocity with the hideous crimes of Andersonville. He then quotes and endorses the folloas a monument of the surpassing horrors of Andersonville as it shall be seen and read in all futuree a proportion of the Confederate guard at Andersonville died as of the prisoners themselves. 5.y efforts in this regard, the prisoners at Andersonville and the delegates I permitted them to sendomplaints have been made at those places' (Andersonville and Salisbury)? A. Nothing in the world, rtain diseases of the Federal prisoners at Andersonville and their causes, which I think would be i said of the horrible sacrifice of life at Andersonville. It now appears that a larger number of. With regard to the prison stations at Andersonville, Salisbury and places south of Richmond, yamor about Libby Prison and Belle Isle and Andersonville. At Fort Delaware the misrule and sufferi[6 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Statement of General J. D. Imboden. (search)
ved to keep up but two prisons, the one at Andersonville and the other at Eufaula. I did this for -the great majority, about 7,500, being at Andersonville. Before I received Colonel Bondurant's ore I could reach a railroad to take me to Andersonville. I made the journey, however, in Februarymished comrades. Shortly before I went to Andersonville six of these villains were detected, and bleather. There were thousands of hides at Andersonville, from the young cattle butchered during thff all the prisoners we had at Eufaula and Andersonville to the nearest accessible Federal post, anms with us. The old routine was resumed at Andersonville, but it was not destined to continue long.evident that his first objective point was Andersonville. Again conferring with Generals Cobb and ere powerless to prevent Wilson's reaching Andersonville, where he would release the prisoners and ny of its own men, inmates of that prison (Andersonville), which they professed then to regard as a[9 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Report of Colonel D. T. Chandler, (search)
us was the horrible condition of things at Andersonville brought home to the Secretary of War, one report disclosed such a state of things at Andersonville, that he had brought it to me, in order thhowed the terrible mortality prevailing at Andersonville, instructed him to go down James river at who was informed of the state of things at Andersonville; that he communicated this proposition to . The responsibility of the lives lost at Andersonville rests, since July, 1864, on General Meredimfort and preservation of the prisoners at Andersonville that the circumstances rendered possible. . S. also denies that the mortality at Andersonville was greater after I proposed to deliver thAfter August there were fewer prisoners at Andersonville. They were removed to other depots. The and make him responsible for the crimes of Andersonville. The captured Confederate archives were sis in connection with a single atrocity at Andersonville or elsewhere. The gentleman from Maine, w[20 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The treatment of prisoners during the war between the States. (search)
s good enough for you, and far better than Andersonville. I depended very little upon the food iss that were in the others. I know not what Andersonville was. I do not doubt but there was great sudred and eighty-six died that month. At Andersonville the mortality averaged a thousand a month whole. At Elmira it was four per cent.; at Andersonville, less than three per cent. If the mortalitess at Elmira than at Andersonville. At Andersonville there was actually nothing to feed or clotd men. Soldiers who have been prisoners at Andersonville, and have done duty at Elmira, confirm thirvation of our prisoners at Belle Isle and Andersonville, by refusing to exchange soldiers because stilence of the prison pens of Raleigh and Andersonville, being more than all the British soldiers t of the responsibility for the horrors of Andersonville rests with General U. S. Grant, who refusetentional cruelty to Northern prisoners at Andersonville; that Judge Shea, at the instance of Mr. G[13 more...]