Terrors and horrors of prison life; or, Six months a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio . sonville and administer totheir wants, but he was not the Good Samariton to dosuch acts of kindness toward the Confederates butpassed by on the other side and did not wished to beencumbered by taking care of the fellow comrades whowere now needing his assistance. But Sherman at thattime thought that war was Hell and that Hell needed aleader and that he would try and fill that position. It will be seen that federals had three grand oppor-tunities to relieve the suffering of the federals inSouthern prisons. One w
Terrors and horrors of prison life; or, Six months a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio . sonville and administer totheir wants, but he was not the Good Samariton to dosuch acts of kindness toward the Confederates butpassed by on the other side and did not wished to beencumbered by taking care of the fellow comrades whowere now needing his assistance. But Sherman at thattime thought that war was Hell and that Hell needed aleader and that he would try and fill that position. It will be seen that federals had three grand oppor-tunities to relieve the suffering of the federals inSouthern prisons. One was by exchange one was kindoffers the other was power. They failed to take anyadvantage of the ways and means of the opportunitiesthat were open to them. Mistreatment of the prisoners both North and Southwho did it and whose fault it was let the reader be hisown judge. For my part I do not think that the South on herpart at any time of the war was able to furnish ammuni-tion of war, shelter, food or raiment for its soldiers whowere fighting its battle while on the other hand the. Log house used by Confederates to:* blacksmith shop, byMiss Willie Duff, June, \906. 29 North was fully prepared to furnish millions and draw-on millions more. Clipping from New Orleans Picayune of June 22nd1904 which says. Mr. Cassanove J. Lee of Washingtona recognized authority on Civil War Statistics had prep-ared an interesting table showing the enormous numer-ical superiority of the Northern army over that of theSouth during the Civil war, Mr. Lees figures show thatthe total enlistment in the Northern army was 2,778,304against 600,000 in the Confederate army. The foreigners and the negroes in the Northern armyaggregated 680,919,80,917 more than the total strengthof the Confederate army. There were 316,424 men ofSouthern birth in the northern army. Mr. Lees figuresare as follows; Northern Army: White from the North 1,272,333,White from the South 316,424, Negroes, 186,017, In-dians, 3,530. Total 2,7
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