. Sufferings endured for a free government; . Private CHARLES R. WOODWORTH,Company G, Sth Michigan Cavalry, Admitted from Flag-of-truce boat,April ISth, 1S64.—Wests Building Hospital, Baltimore, \^^ Pkivati: lewis KLEIX,Company A, 14th Now \..rk Ciivalry, Admitted from St«-araer Now , from Richmuud, Va., April ISth, 1S64.—Wests Building Uospitul, Bait. Md. o\ CONDITION OF RELEASED PRISONERS. 49 to starve. One of their leading men said to me, LibbyPrison and Belle Island are our best generals—they arekilling off more men than Bragg and Lee! One other fact I learned most discreditable
. Sufferings endured for a free government; . Private CHARLES R. WOODWORTH,Company G, Sth Michigan Cavalry, Admitted from Flag-of-truce boat,April ISth, 1S64.—Wests Building Hospital, Baltimore, \^^ Pkivati: lewis KLEIX,Company A, 14th Now \..rk Ciivalry, Admitted from St«-araer Now , from Richmuud, Va., April ISth, 1S64.—Wests Building Uospitul, Bait. Md. o\ CONDITION OF RELEASED PRISONERS. 49 to starve. One of their leading men said to me, LibbyPrison and Belle Island are our best generals—they arekilling off more men than Bragg and Lee! One other fact I learned most discreditable to therebel authorities. Bell Island is a contracted patch ofground; consisting of only three or four acres, on whichthousands of prisoners are cro\yded, with scarcely a footof intervening space. The water they are compelled todrink is in close proximity to the sinks, and necessarilypolluted and poisoned. This the prisoners are compelledto drink, in very sight of clear and wholesome water,which^is running in perennial streams before their hardships are thus purposely aggravated, andunder them, an iron constitution melts away as frostbefore a summers sun. This, indeed, is the v
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