Chapter 38:
- The exchange of prisoners, and their treatment in captivity. -- exceeding interest of the subject. -- slight account of prisoners in the early periods of the war. -- Mr. Boyce's proposition. -- the Wool -- Cobb negotiation. -- the Fort Donelson captures. -- bad faith of the Federal Government. -- the cartel of 1862. -- character of Commissioner Ould. -- his humane and zealous services. -- shameful violation of the cartel by the Federal authorities. -- solemn protest of Commissioner Ould. -- counter-charge of the Federals. -- it is disproved by Commissioner Ould. -- case of Streight. -- the Federal Government declares paroles void. -- Commissioner Ould denounces the cheat. -- his retaliation with respect to the Vicksburg prisoners. -- he waives the cartel, and makes a new proposition. -- he sends to Washington lists of mortality in the Andersonville prison. -- the Federal Government does not reply. -- its persistent and inhuman silence. -- explanation of it. -- the Washington Government resolved to make a case of “rebel barbarity.” -- the site, arrangements and discipline of the Andersonville prison. -- explanation of the suffering and mortality there. -- extraordinary proposition of the Confederate Government to release without equivalents and without formality all sick and wounded Federal prisoners. -- Secretary Stanton deaf to the cry of the sufferers. -- his great guilt. -- exchanges resumed under Gen. Grant's authority. -- report of the joint select committee of the Confederate Congress, appointed to investigate the condition and treatment of prisoners of war. -- Northern publications on this subject. -- refutation of “raw — head — and — bloody — bones” stories. -- humanity of the Confederate authorities. -- a terrible record of Federal cruelties. -- barbarous punishments in Northern prisons. -- last humane proposition of Commissioner Ould. -- his letter to Gen. Grant. -- a complete record of justice and humanity on the part of the Confederates
The exchange of prisoners taken during the war; their treatment in their places of confinement North and South; the incidents of the cartel, altogether, constitute so large and interesting a subject that we have reserved its treatment for a separate chapter. On the exposition of this intricate matter depends much of the good name of the Confederates and the contrary title of the enemy; and it may be remarked that no subject which tended to keep alive a feeling of bitterness and animosity between the
