Sufferings endured for a free government; or, A history of the cruelties and atrocities of the Rebellion1864 |
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... compelled to work , guarded , and restrained from all liberty , by sentries . It was no uncommon sight to see squads of our men coming back to their prison- house at night carrying their implements of labor , be- spotted with whitewash ...
... compelled to work , guarded , and restrained from all liberty , by sentries . It was no uncommon sight to see squads of our men coming back to their prison- house at night carrying their implements of labor , be- spotted with whitewash ...
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... compelled to scrub the floors , clean the water - closets of the prison , and perform other menial services . All are , and have been at all times since their imprisonment in Libby , subjected to insults and brutal treatment on the part ...
... compelled to scrub the floors , clean the water - closets of the prison , and perform other menial services . All are , and have been at all times since their imprisonment in Libby , subjected to insults and brutal treatment on the part ...
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... compelled to drink is in close proximity to the sinks , and necessarily polluted and poisoned . This the prisoners are compelled to drink , in very sight of clear and wholesome water , which is running in perennial streams before their ...
... compelled to drink is in close proximity to the sinks , and necessarily polluted and poisoned . This the prisoners are compelled to drink , in very sight of clear and wholesome water , which is running in perennial streams before their ...
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... compelled to sell to their guards and others , for what price they could get , such clothing and blankets as they were permitted to receive and have furnished for their use by our Government , in order to obtain suffi- cient food to ...
... compelled to sell to their guards and others , for what price they could get , such clothing and blankets as they were permitted to receive and have furnished for their use by our Government , in order to obtain suffi- cient food to ...
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... compelled to destroy their clothing , and re - clothe them with new and clean raiment . Their boots and hats have been so infested with vermin that , in some instances , repeated washings have failed to remove them , and those who have ...
... compelled to destroy their clothing , and re - clothe them with new and clean raiment . Their boots and hats have been so infested with vermin that , in some instances , repeated washings have failed to remove them , and those who have ...
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Page 66 - If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of war ; but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter.
Page 284 - Now, therefore, I, JEFFERSON DAVIS, President of the Confederate States of America, do issue this my Proclamation...
Page 295 - ... families all the way from Dalton down, and I see no reason why Atlanta should be excepted. Nor is it necessary to appeal to ' the dark history of war,' when recent and modern examples are so handy.
Page 295 - I say it is a kindness to these families of Atlanta to remove them now at once from scenes that women and children should not be exposed to ; and the brave people should scorn to commit their wives and children to the rude barbarians who thus, as you say, violate the laws of war, as illustrated in the pages of its dark history.
Page 300 - Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President of the Confederate States...
Page 74 - ... atrocious cruelty might be enumerated; but your Committee feel compelled to refrain from giving here more of the heart-sickening details, and refer to the statements contained in the voluminous testimony herewith submitted. Those statements were obtained by them from eye-witnesses and sufferers. Many of them, as they were examined by your Committee, were lying upon beds of pain and suffering, some so feeble that their lips could with...
Page 32 - In the mean time, however, the views entertained and expressed to them by the members of the court were overcome, it may be safely assumed, under the prompting of the remorseless despotism at Richmond.
Page 73 - The rebels themselves had made a pretence of burying a great many of their victims, but they had merely thrown them, without the least regard to care or decency, into the trenches and ditches about the fort, or the little hollows and ravines on the hillside, covering them but partially with earth.
Page 281 - Constitution" (33,872) thirty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, being a majority of (64,256) sixty-four thousand two hundred and fifty-six for the new Constitution. Now, therefore, I, DWC Senter, Governor of the State of Tennessee, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested, do hereby declare and proclaim that the new Constitution, as submitted to the people, was ratified by them at the...
Page 33 - Thirtythird Ohio Volunteers, who was too ill to walk. He was, however, pinioned like the rest, and in this condition was dragged from the floor on which he was lying to the scaffold. In an hour or more the cavalry escort, which had accompanied them, was seen returning with the cart, but the cart was empty — the tragedy had been consummated! On that evening and the following morning the prisoners learned from...