. Prisoners of war and military prisons; personal narratives of experience in the prisons at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Charleston, and Columbia ... with a list of officers who were prisoners of war from January 1, 1864 . 0., November 24, 1864. The clipping inclosed in the above letter was from the Sumter (8. C.) Watchman, and headed The Prisonersat Extracts are here reproduced : Mr. Editor:—It may not be uninteresting to yournumerous readers to hear something from the Yankeecamp at Florence. . The camp we found full of what were once humanbeings, bu
. Prisoners of war and military prisons; personal narratives of experience in the prisons at Richmond, Danville, Macon, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Charleston, and Columbia ... with a list of officers who were prisoners of war from January 1, 1864 . 0., November 24, 1864. The clipping inclosed in the above letter was from the Sumter (8. C.) Watchman, and headed The Prisonersat Extracts are here reproduced : Mr. Editor:—It may not be uninteresting to yournumerous readers to hear something from the Yankeecamp at Florence. . The camp we found full of what were once humanbeings, but who would scarcely now be recognized as an old field, with no inciosure but the living wall ofsentinels who guard them night and day, are several thou-sand filthy, diseased, famished men, with no hope of reliefexcept by death. A few^ dirty rags stretched on polesgive them a poor protection from the hot sun and heavydews. All were in rags, and barefoot, and crawling withvermin. As we passed around the line of guards, I sawone of them brought out from his miserable booth by twoof his companions, and laid upon the ground to die. Hewas nearly naked. His companions pulled his cap overhis face and straightened out his limbs. Before they.
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