Excerpt from Treatment of Prisoners of War; Rebel Version of Their Cruelties: Report of the Rebel Committee of Investigation Surgeon Spence testifies: I' was at Savannah. And saw rather over prisoners received. Thee list showed that a large number had died on the passage from Baltimore to Savannah. The number sent from the Federal prisons was and out of. That number they delivered only to' the best of my recollection. Capt. Hatch can give you the exact number. Thus, about 472 died on the passage. I was told' that 6? Dead bodies had been taken from one train of cars between Elmira and Baltimore After being received at Savan 'nah, they had the best attention possible, 'yet. Many died in afew days, In carrying out the excha'nge of disabled. Sick and wounded men, we delivered at sae vannah and Charleston about.ll,000 Federal prisoners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...Federal prisoners of war confined in Southern prisons. This whole petition recited a bold, broad lie; a mean, deliberate, malicious slander on the brave people and government of the South. It was then a well-known fact, and at this day proven beyond question, that the Confederate Government was willing and anxious to exchange prisoners of war, but the powers at Washington, and General U. S. Grant, refused to make exchange, and rejected all offers for exchange made to them by the Confederate authorities. In fact, the United States authorities even refused to send transports and get their sick and wounded men--prisoners of war--that our government offered them at any time they would send transports. It further can be said, without fear of contradiction, that, at the time this petition for retaliation was before the United States Senate, President Lincoln and all his officials had full knowledge thatthe Confederate Government was feeding to its prisoners of war the same rations the Confederate soldier received in the field. What more could our government do? What more could be demanded of them? The late Senator Sumner offered a substitute for the Lane resolution of retaliation, which can be found in the United States Senate Reports, 186465. It reads: "Be it resolved, That the treatment of our "officers and soldiers in Rebel prisons is cruel, "savage, and heartrending beyond all precedent; "that it is shocking to morals; that it is an offence "against human nature itself; that it adds new guilt "to the great crime of rebellion, and constitutes an "example from which history will turn with sorrow "and digust. "Resolved, That any attempted imitation of "Rebel barbarism in the treatment of...

Excerpt from Prisoners of War, 1861-65: A Record of Personal Experiences, and a Study of the Condition and Treatment of Prisoners on Both Sides During the War of the Rebellion In 1864, the regiment of which I was adjutant was placed on guard over Camp Morton near Indianapolis, Indiana, then one of the largest prisons for rebels in the North, and in the Winter of 1865 I was made a prisoner at the battle of Fort Stedman in front of Petersburg, Virginia, and was confined in the well-known Libby Prison at Rich mond. I thus had the opportunity of seeing at first hand both Sides of this much mooted question, the treatment of prisoners. The facts as I saw and experienced them, and the conclusions I reached, I shall try to give you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.