Narrative of Privations And Sufferings of United States Officers And Soldiers Wh
Narrative of Privations And Sufferings of United States Officers And Soldiers Wh
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It was only a few weeks ago, that the streets of New Orleans beheld a regiment of half-starved and half-naked men, who had just been released from that station. Still more heart-rending is the later account, given in a memor ial to the President, from Andersonville, Georgia, and in the full description, verified on oath, of what is now being suffered there by the imprisoned sol diers of our army. It would appear to be Belle-Isle five times enlarged, and ten-fold intensified. An enormous multitu...de of thirty-five thousand men are crowded together in a square enclosure or stockade 94 THE SAME SUFFERING IN EVERY REBEL PRISON. of about twenty-five acres, with a noxious swamp at the centre, occupying one-fourth of the whole space. Here the prisoners suffer not only the privations already mentioned, but others peculiar to circum stances of a worse description. * In this pestilential prison they are dying at the rate of one hundred and thirty a day, on an average! The Commissioners allude to this station not as part of the evidence taken by themselves, but as an interesting, authentic, and corroborative illustration of the point now under consideration.
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