THE UNION CAPTIVES: Additional Names of the Martyred Dead; The Victims at Andersonville and Florence (12/20/1864)

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THE UNION CAPTIVES: Additional Names of the Martyred Dead; The Victims at Andersonville and Florence (12/20/1864)
New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 12/20/1864

Posted on 12/20/2024 6:44:29 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson

We give below the concluding portion of a long list of names (furnished recently by our correspondent who accompanied the exchange fleet to Savannah and Charleston,) of Union soldiers who have died under the terrible hardships of their treatment in the Southern prison pens. It is a dismal record. For its entire correctness our correspondent makes no claim, as it was mainly copied from small detached slips and fragments of dingy paper, each containing a single name -- the writing upon which was often nearly illegible, requiring in its slow deciphering a great expenditure of patience. Many of the names therefore are doubtless misspelled. Long as the lists of the dead have been which we have published from time to time, it is sad to reflect that they comprise but a tithe of the victims, and thousands upon thousands of our brave soldiers have been buried like dogs in unmarked graves. As nearly as can be ascertained the rebel prison authorities, generally speaking, were not themselves humane enough to have the deaths among our prisoners recorded, neither were they liberal enough to supply the cheap favor of a sufficient quantity of writing paper to the hospital attendants selected from our own men, that this last simple duty toward the dead might be properly performed. Imperfect, however, as this list is, we are sure that it will be eagerly scanned by thousands of our readers, to many of whom it will probably convey the first information of the fate of a dear relative or friend.

We also publish the copy of a document which was drawn up by the Union officers confined at Columbia, detailing their grievances and asking redress at the hands of the rebel Gen. HARDEE, commanding the Department of Georgia and South Carolina. Col. JOHN FRASER,

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2 posted on 12/20/2024 6:45:33 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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The Union Captives: Additional Names of the Martyred Dead – 2-3
The Pennsylvania Oil Regions: “Rich as Mud” – 3-5
From the Army of the Potomac: Execution of Deserters – 5
Information Wanted – 5
The Situation: Operations of Gen. Thomas on Sunday – 7
Reinforcement of the Army: Important Order of the War Department – 7
The Great March: Review of Gen. Sherman’s Georgia Campaign – 7-11
News from Washington – 11
Thirty-Eighth Congress: Second Session – 11-12
Editorial: The Latest and Last Aspect of the War – 12-13
Editorial: The Oil Regions – 13
Necrology of the Southern Prison Pens – 13
Soldiers to the Front – 13-14

3 posted on 12/20/2024 6:46:25 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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