The Immortal Six Hundred a Story of Cruelty to Confederate Prisoners of War
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Yet we hear much said a- bout the tortures of Anderson ville, by the Northern people. No such treatment was ever inflicted upon Union prisoners of war in any Confederate prison of the South. Just above the cell in which our comrades were confined was a room in which white and nigger convicts were confined. Daily they polluted the ears of our comrades with the vilest epithets such scoundrels could utter about our Southern women. They even cut a hole through the floor and spit upon our men, and w...hen the prison authorities were complained to about this indignity they simply smiled and made no effort to stop it; they even rather encouraged these vile scoundrels in their meanness and insults to our helpless men. Davis, the deserter, one day did worse than spit upon our men in the cell. Our men protested to the sergeant who had charge of the convict room, but he would take no notice of the protest. Finally the conduct of the con- victs towards our men became so unbearable that Colonel Manning got the sergeant to ask Lieu- tenant Thompson, U.
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