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Winchester, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.32
s or foe? Most unquestionably the responsibility rests with the Federal authorities. They not only declared medicines contraband of war --even arresting ladies coming South for concealing a little quinine under their skirts — but they sanctioned the custom of their soldiers to sack every drug store in the Confederacy which they could reach, and to destroy even the little stock of medicines which the private physician might chance to have on hand. When General Milroy banished from Winchester, Virginia, the family of Mr. Loyd Logan, because the General (and his wife) fancied his elegantly furnished mansion for headquarters, he not only forbade their carrying with them a change of raiment, and refused to allow Mrs. Logan to take one of her spoons with which to administer medicine to a sick child, but he most emphatically prohibited their carrying a small medicine chest, or even a few phials of medicine which the physician had prescribed for immediate use. Possibly some ingenious casu
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 4.32
of the prisoners the ground for a strong appeal to the United States for a renewal of exchange. And this was all. Mr. Davisments, and made the basis of diplomatic action with the United States, the wrong was so great that we hesitated to believe thle could have enjoyed to an even greater extent had the United States authorities been willing to accept the humane propositihe means at hand would allow. 2. It was hoped that the United States authorities would surely consent to an exchange of prisruel to prisoners, it does not lie in the mouths of the United States authorities, or their apologists, to condemn them. Let lty to prisoners was utterly without foundation. The United States authorities did not dare to bring Mr. Davis to trial onpension of the cartel and the stoppage of exchange, the United States authorities alone were responsible. We traced the histe treatment of prisoners. Certainly the refusal of the United States authorities to exchange would not have justified the Co
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.32
und numbers the Confederate prisoners in Federal hands amounted to 220,000, while the Federal prisoners in Confederate hands amounted to 270,000. Out of the 270,000 in Confederate hands 22,000 died, while of the 220,000 Confederates in Federal hands over 26,000 died. The ratio is this: more than twelve per cent. of the Confederates in Federal hands died, and less than nine per cent. of the Federals in Confederate hands died. What is the logic of these facts according to the gentleman from Maine? I scorn to charge murder upon the officials of Northern prisons, as the gentleman has done upon Confederate prison officials. I labor to demonstrate that such miseries are inevitable in prison life, no matter how humane the regulations. These figures (compiled not by Confederates, but by those who had no love for Rebels --compiled from documents to which we are denied all access — compiled in the regular course of official duty, and with scarcely a thought of the tale they would tell
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.32
n its hands — refused to exchange sick and wounded — and neglected from August to December, 1864, to accede to Judge Ould's proposition to send transportation to Savannah and receive without equivalent from ten to fifteen thousand Federal prisoners, notwithstanding the fact that this offer was accompanied with a statement of the urs when the Confederates agreed to their own hard terms, which Judge Ould had finally done. 3. And when our Commissioner proposed in August, 1864, to deliver at Savannah from ten to fifteen thousand prisoners which the Federal authorities might have without equivalent by simply sending transportation for them, it was reasonably sre dying by the hundred from causes which are utterly beyond our control, and I am authorized by my Government to propose that if you will send transportation to Savannah we will at once deliver into your hands, without equivalent, from ten to fifteen thousand of your suffering soldiers. We affirmed, moreover (what we are prepare
La Grange (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.32
ish incidentally letters from Secretary Seddon, ex-President Davis, Adjutant-General S. Cooper, Colonel George W. Brent and General G. T. Beauregard, and the testimony of Federal prisoners themselves, going to show that the charges against him were false. The Nation then proceeds to ring the same old charges on the horrors of Andersonville which we have heard for years, and utterly ignores the testimony which we introduced on the other side. We gave the statements of Mr. L. M. Park, of La Grange, Georgia (for whom we vouched as a gentleman of unimpeachable character), who was on duty at Andersonville nearly the whole of the time it was a prison, and who gives the most emphatic testimony to the effect that the water used by the prisoners was the same as that used by the guards, and was not foul, as has been represented — that the failure to erect barracks was from want of mills to saw the lumber, want of timber, and lack of even a supply of nails — that the rations issued to the pr
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 4.32
to what was done at Andersonville. I would not become a traitor against him or anybody else, even to save my life. We brought out the proofs of all these facts. Moreover we published the letter of Chief-Justice George Shea, to the New York Tribune, giving an account of his investigation of this question in behalf of Mr. Horace Greeley and other gentlemen who were unwilling to go on Mr. Davis' bail bond until the charge against him of cruelty to prisoners was cleared up. Judge Shea went to Canada and had access to certain Confederate archives which had escaped capture, and he investigated all of the evidence which the Bureau of military justice had at Washington. The result was that he was not only convinced himself, but succeeded in convincing such men as Governor Andrew, Horace Greeley, Gerritt Smith, Vice-President Wilson and Thaddeus Stevens, that the charge against Mr. Davis of even connivance at cruelty to prisoners was utterly without foundation. The United States authorit
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.32
he Nation then proceeds to ring the same old charges on the horrors of Andersonville which we have heard for years, and utterly ignores the testimony which we introduced on the other side. We gave the statements of Mr. L. M. Park, of La Grange, Georgia (for whom we vouched as a gentleman of unimpeachable character), who was on duty at Andersonville nearly the whole of the time it was a prison, and who gives the most emphatic testimony to the effect that the water used by the prisoners was the instead of corn bread? Answers to these questions may be abundantly found by referring to the orders of Major-General John Pope, directing his men to live on the country ; the orders of General Sherman, in fulfilling his avowed purpose to make Georgia howl as he smashed things generally in that great march, which left smoking, blackened ruins and desolated fields to mark his progress; the orders of General Grant to his Lieutenant, to desolate the rich wheat-growing Valley of Virginia; or the
Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.32
r (a garbled clause of which they give and pervert) as settling his complicity with the crime of Andersonville. The Nation has not thought proper to meet our argument, which proved, beyond all reasonable doubt, that for the suspension of the cartel and the stoppage of exchange, the United States authorities alone were responsible. We traced the history of the exchange question, and gave the most indubitable proofs that the Confederates were always ready to exchange, but that so soon as Gettysburg and Vicksburg gave the United State Government a large excess of prisoners actually in hand (though a large part of them should have been at once released to meet paroles already held by the Confederates), it at once adopted as its cold-blooded war policy to refuse all further exchange of prisoners, while they satisfied the North by charging bad faith and cruelty to prisoners on the part of the Rebels. The Nation seems to think that the question of exchange had nothing to do with the t
Andersonville, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.32
ugh from this report that the mortality at Andersonville was almost wholly from diarrhoea, dysentereneral, endorsed this report, writing that Andersonville is a reproach to us as a nation. J. A. Cafully, of the gigantic murder and crime at Andersonville. We felt called on to defend our Governmeetailed report of the monthly mortality at Andersonville, and that Judge Ould, again and again, urgo his grave. The Confederate graveyard at Andersonville will fully prove that the mortality among nt, the reply is at hand. The stockade at Andersonville was originally designed for a much smaller comfortable quarters for the prisoners at Andersonville: 1. It was always expected to very greatllity in the Confederate prisons, excluding Andersonville, only about one-half of that in the Northeg to notice the statements in reference to Andersonville which Colonel Chandler made, not only did settling his complicity with the crime of Andersonville. The Nation has not thought proper to m[22 more...]
Americus (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4.32
retary, in his report, quotes three witnesses (Frost, Jones and Park), to the effect that the same rations were issued to the guard — a disputed point not perhaps very important to settle, as it is not denied that there were abundant supplies at Americus and elsewhere in the vicinity, in a region which Sherman found so well supplied, and that our men were starving to death on the rations of unbolted corn-meal alone that were issued to them, while the gifts of charitable neighbors were not allowe gangrene of the face, and was forbidden by his surgeon (I. H. White) to go inside the stockade. Colonel G. C. Gibbs, commandant of the post, had gangrene of the face, and was furloughed under the certificate of Surgeons Wible and Gore, of Americus, Georgia. The writer of this can fully attest to effects of gangrene and scurvy contracted whilst on duty there; their marks will follow him to his grave. The Confederate graveyard at Andersonville will fully prove that the mortality among the gua
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