. The immortal six hundred; a story of cruelty to Confederate prisoners of war . robably the 109 THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED ancestors of this fellow Hallowell wereMassachusetts Tories, doing all theycould to defeat the cause of the AmericanColonies, and possibly spies for the Eng-lish crown. And yet the fate of warcompelled us to listen to the impudenceof this doughty hero—unable to resenthis insults. How brave he was, backedas he was by the bayonets of his niggersoldiers. One of his smart jokes was tocome into our prison pen and say, in hisarrogant drawl, Gentlemen, to-morrowI will have some ba
. The immortal six hundred; a story of cruelty to Confederate prisoners of war . robably the 109 THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED ancestors of this fellow Hallowell wereMassachusetts Tories, doing all theycould to defeat the cause of the AmericanColonies, and possibly spies for the Eng-lish crown. And yet the fate of warcompelled us to listen to the impudenceof this doughty hero—unable to resenthis insults. How brave he was, backedas he was by the bayonets of his niggersoldiers. One of his smart jokes was tocome into our prison pen and say, in hisarrogant drawl, Gentlemen, to-morrowI will have some barrels placed in thestreets of your inclosure into which youcan throw your bones. Of course, I meanyour meat bones. This was cruel; itwas cowardly to make such jests of ourstarving condition. He could see dailyhow the treatment was breaking downand killing our men; he reveled in ourterrible condition. Most of the prisonerswere suffering with acute this terrible complaint not one es-caped; but none of our men complained;none murmured against our government. 110. CAPTAIN J. W. MATHEWSWEST VIRGINIA(Merchant and Farmer) -=^, LSNO, THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED We knew the Richmond authorites weredoing all they could for us, and, like thedying Caesar, we were too proud to let ourYankee jailors see that we suffered. Itseems like blasphemy to charge the crea-tion of such a creature as this fellow tonature, and really an insult ^o his satanicmajesty to say he created such a carica-ture on the human race as was I stated before, acute dysentery,caused by the bad water we drank, andmiserable rations of rotten, worm-filledhardtack crackers, put our men in verybad condition. On the night of Septem-ber 28, 1864, Lieutenant Frank Peake, ofMorgans men, who was one of my tentmates, was taken very sick, with everysymptom of cholera. We had nothingto relieve his pain, and did not dare goout to call for help. Had one of us leftthe tent or called for help, the negroguard wou
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