Sufferings endured for a free government; or, A history of the cruelties and atrocities of the Rebellion1864 |
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... sent from the field at that time . They became very rude , and talked in a very ugly way , and insisted on my going ... sent us back to the battle - field ; there were three of us in that party . We told them we were already faint and ...
... sent from the field at that time . They became very rude , and talked in a very ugly way , and insisted on my going ... sent us back to the battle - field ; there were three of us in that party . We told them we were already faint and ...
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... sent there by General Beauregard to take charge of the wounded . He would not allow us to perform operations upon our own men , but had them performed by his as sistants , young men , some of them with no more know- ledge of what they ...
... sent there by General Beauregard to take charge of the wounded . He would not allow us to perform operations upon our own men , but had them performed by his as sistants , young men , some of them with no more know- ledge of what they ...
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... sent in . A privy and sink render foul and disgusting one end of each room , polluting , at times , the air of the entire apart- ment . None are permitted to leave this building of accumulated and accumulating horrors , till borne to ...
... sent in . A privy and sink render foul and disgusting one end of each room , polluting , at times , the air of the entire apart- ment . None are permitted to leave this building of accumulated and accumulating horrors , till borne to ...
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Thomas L. Wilson. to come to him . When the neglected men are sent to the hospital , it is often too late . None of the privates in the prisons about " Libby " are furnished with bedding of any kind . A member of this committee received ...
Thomas L. Wilson. to come to him . When the neglected men are sent to the hospital , it is often too late . None of the privates in the prisons about " Libby " are furnished with bedding of any kind . A member of this committee received ...
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... sent to the hospitals , and the surgeon's opinion of them is , that more than one - third of them must die . They are beyond the reach of medicine . I questioned several of them , and all stated that their condition has been brought on ...
... sent to the hospitals , and the surgeon's opinion of them is , that more than one - third of them must die . They are beyond the reach of medicine . I questioned several of them , and all stated that their condition has been brought on ...
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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...