A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . MONUMENT NEAR TELLOW TAVERK,WHERE STUART FELL. 202 History of Virginia and Virginians. ened and died in a Southern or a Northern prison. I tellyou these facts because even now, when the whole recordis open to the world, this charge of cruelty is frequentlyrepeated against the South. The Treatment of President Davis.—A few days afterthe war closed, Mr. Lincoln was assassinated by Booth,. LEE MONUMENT. who was in no sense a Southern man, an act which wascondemned as truly in the South as in the North, yet thiswas made the pretext for infli
A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . MONUMENT NEAR TELLOW TAVERK,WHERE STUART FELL. 202 History of Virginia and Virginians. ened and died in a Southern or a Northern prison. I tellyou these facts because even now, when the whole recordis open to the world, this charge of cruelty is frequentlyrepeated against the South. The Treatment of President Davis.—A few days afterthe war closed, Mr. Lincoln was assassinated by Booth,. LEE MONUMENT. who was in no sense a Southern man, an act which wascondemned as truly in the South as in the North, yet thiswas made the pretext for inflicting the most inhumancruelties upon President Davis. A proclamation wasissued offering $100,000 for his capture. He was arrested History of Virginia and Virginians. 203 in Georgia and brought to Fortress Monroe, where he wasironed and imprisoned in a damp, dark casemate, deprivedof all books and papers, guarded constantly by soldiers. and other eminentgiven their opinionconvicted of noyears of sufferingbail, broken inquered in Grant, whokind-hearted man,of his great braverymore powerful thanis entitled to theLee, Johnston andfederate leaders,lowed to go aboutGrant ever showedthose in his power,act of cruelty orunfortunate peoplechargedhim. Heery consid-Lees feel-he receivedder of hispomattox;wants ofred Confed-wh o m heand he also Chief Justice Chaselawyers, havingthat he could becrime, after tw^ohe was releasedhealth,
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