The Real Lincoln From the Testimony of His Contemporaries
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" 4 Bancroft says further (Vol. 11. , p. 276, et seq. }, "The least excusable feature was the treatment of the prisoners. Month after month many of them were crowded together in gloomy and damp casemates, where even the dangerous pirates captured on privateers and soldiers taken in battle ought not to have remained long. Many had com mitted no overt act. There were among them editors and political leaders of character and honor, but whose freedom would be prejudicial to the prosecution of the w...ar (Vol. II. , p. 278). It was inevitable that innocent men should be caught in the dangerous machinery. It afforded rare opportunities for the gratification of personal enmities and the display of power on the part of United States marshals and military officers It hap pened more than once that men languished in prisons for weeks before any one at the department even heard their names. " Justice to the great States that were reduced to sub- 3 Vol. II. , p. 276. He means of those confined by Seward.
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