. The Civil War : the national view . lle in the horrors of his-tory. General Lees name is never associated, at the North,with the murder of negro prisoners, but the name of Jef-ferson Davis is indissolubly associated with Andersonvilleprison—and the fiercest wish ever uttered at the Northrespecting him was that he might be imprisoned there andtreated as the prisoners were treated. Innumerable bookshave been written about the war, and the theme will con-tinue to provoke books till the end of time—but no bookhas been written or can truthfully be written which doesnot describe Andersonville pris
. The Civil War : the national view . lle in the horrors of his-tory. General Lees name is never associated, at the North,with the murder of negro prisoners, but the name of Jef-ferson Davis is indissolubly associated with Andersonvilleprison—and the fiercest wish ever uttered at the Northrespecting him was that he might be imprisoned there andtreated as the prisoners were treated. Innumerable bookshave been written about the war, and the theme will con-tinue to provoke books till the end of time—but no bookhas been written or can truthfully be written which doesnot describe Andersonville prison as the supreme cruelty ofslavocracy and the Confederacy. The railings of JeffersonDavis In his messages to the Confederate Congress againstthe revolting Inhumanity of the United States towardConfederate prisoners at Johnsons Island, In Sandusky Bay,—a prison amidst three hundred acres of dry, healthy sur-roundings freely open to the prisoners, without peril, the pris-oners, never more than 2,500 In number, having substantial. General Grants council of war at City Point, 1864, Grant lookingover Meades shoulder examining map. THE THIRD TEAR OF THE WAR 381 and comfortable buildings and abundant food and fuel—and all under humane surveillance—are accented to theviolation of truth in his assertion that *the rations of theprisoners, at Andersonville and other Confederate prisons,are precisely the same in quantity and quality, as thoseserved out to our own gallant soldiers in the field. Theprison-pen at Andersonville, as described by Lieutenant-Colonel D. T. Chandler, special inspector to the Confed-erate government, w^as an area enclosed by a stockade fifteenfeet high, 540 by 260 yards, with a railing around the insideof the stockade, and about twenty feet from it, constitutingthe dead-line, beyond which prisoners were forbidden to passon pain of death; the centre was occupied by a noisomeswamp covering three and a half acres, reducing the avail-able area to twenty-three
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