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OUR PRISONERS: THEIR RELEASE FROM CAPTIVITY; Arrival of the First Installment at Fortress Monroe (11/26/1864)
New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 11/26/1864
Posted on 11/26/2024 6:39:05 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
From Our Special Correspondent.
PORT ROYAL, S.C., Monday, Nov. 21, 1864.
I.
The past-few days have been fraught with a very painful interest to everybody who has been connected in any way whatever with the exchange of our sick and wounded prisoners now in progress on the Savannah River. Col. MULFORD began to receive our poor fellows last Friday, and the delivery is to continue at the rate of from eight hundred to twelve hundred per day, until the aggregate number of the wretched suffering creatures, estimated at ten thousand, return to our welcome keeping. I shall attempt in this letter to give some idea of the outward appearance, physical condition, animating spirit and expression of opinion of these soldiers of the Republic who have escaped from unutterable misery, with the sole object of presenting facts to the country which must result in the release of their fifty thousand comrades who cannot survive the coming Winter, under the conditions in which they are kept through the unparalleled vindictiveness of the Southern authorities. This is a hard charge, but I make it deliberately. The irrefragable proof is lying before me, not alone in the ex parte testimony and wasted hungry aspect of the sufferers, whose filth and squalor and skeleton frames appeal for justice to the God of justice, but in the official papers of the rebel surgeons at Andersonville and the records of the charnel-houses, miscalled hospitals, at that terrestrial hell -- records never meant to pass the limits of the Confederacy, but which a merciful Providence has brought to light, that out of their own mouths these barbarians, with whom we are at war, should be convicted.
The task before me I undertake with great reluctance. Aside from the indignation which every man cannot help feeling
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: civilwar
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2 posted on 11/26/2024 6:39:53 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...
Our Prisoners: Their Release from Captivity – 2-5
From Fortress Monroe: Arrival of Released Union Prisoners – 5
Sherman’s March: Rebel Reports of His Progress – 5-7
The Rebel Plot: Attempt to Burn the City – 7
The War in Tennessee: Occupation of Waynesboro, Tennessee, by Hood’s Army – 7
A Letter from the President – 7
The Case of Mrs. Hutchins – 7
From Fortress Monroe: The Turkeys – 7
Execution of a Colored Soldier – 7
The Cabinet: Resignation of Attorney-General Bates – 7
News from Washington – 7-8
Editorial: Sherman’s March – 8
Editorial: The Union Martyrs – 8
Amusements this Evening – 8
3 posted on 11/26/2024 6:40:29 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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