. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . tttKKM^M^. FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY THE U. S. GOVERNMENT OF UNION SOLDIERS,JUST AFTER THEIR RETURN FROM CONFEDERATE PRISONS. 450 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN. North from Salisbury, N. C, three Southern Methodist Clergymencame into the pen and preached. They said they were Southernersand had for a long time been aware of the awful crimes that werebeing committed in that prison, but they were powerless to preventthem. They had sought for their liberation but in vain. They no
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . tttKKM^M^. FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY THE U. S. GOVERNMENT OF UNION SOLDIERS,JUST AFTER THEIR RETURN FROM CONFEDERATE PRISONS. 450 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN. North from Salisbury, N. C, three Southern Methodist Clergymencame into the pen and preached. They said they were Southernersand had for a long time been aware of the awful crimes that werebeing committed in that prison, but they were powerless to preventthem. They had sought for their liberation but in vain. They nowcame in to tell them that their exchange was near at hand and that God Almighty would never prosper any government which practicedsuch awful cruelties upon its defenseless captives ! Several prisonershave told the author that some of the Southern people condemnedthese outrages in unmistakable terms, and the Southern women weremoved to weeping at the awful looking skeletons and emaciated formsthat emerged from that prison hell. The great trouble with thepeople of the South was their acquiesence in the wicked andtreaso
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