. The immortal six hundred; a story of cruelty to Confederate prisoners of war . villages; render home-less our wives and children; you may drive theblack car of war throughout our land; but thesubjugation of our people is impossible. The most fearful test a man can be put to isthat of starvation. The corn-meal-pickle rationwas this test; it was the trying ordeal of the man-hood of those six hundred Confederate stood the test. The seventeen who tookthe oath were the dross of the gold; they mustwear their badge of dishonor; they cannot ridthemselves of it, they cannot hide it. In t
. The immortal six hundred; a story of cruelty to Confederate prisoners of war . villages; render home-less our wives and children; you may drive theblack car of war throughout our land; but thesubjugation of our people is impossible. The most fearful test a man can be put to isthat of starvation. The corn-meal-pickle rationwas this test; it was the trying ordeal of the man-hood of those six hundred Confederate stood the test. The seventeen who tookthe oath were the dross of the gold; they mustwear their badge of dishonor; they cannot ridthemselves of it, they cannot hide it. In theworlds history these fellows will be classed ascowards; in the glorious history of the Confederacythey will be written down as deserters,—none candefend them. Dear old Murray, lets say to-gether, God bless those of the six hundred whoremained true unto the end. Their story willbe written on the scroll of fame; it will go downthrough all time. Generations will sing theirpraise and crown them martyrs to principle fortheir devotion and fidelity in those days of torture. 222. LIEUTENANT W. B. CARDERVIRGINIA lON3 THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED ESCAPE FROM FEDERALS. I was Captain of Company H, 10th Louis-iana Regiment, Infantry, Staffords Brigade, Ed-ward Johnstons Division, Jacksons (afterwardsEwells) Corps, of the Army of Northern three-fourths of the regimen o, I was takenprisoner at the Bloody Angle, at the battle ofSpottsjdvania, May 12, 1864. I was taken toFort Delaware and was one of the six hundredConfederate officers picked out to be placed underthe fire of the Confederate batteries on MorrisIsland, for alleged retaUation. These officers were embarked in August onthe small transport Crescent, where four menwere allowed a space of four by six feet to he had been some nineteen days on this floatingpurgatory when we were landed on Morris Island,and marched ankle deep in sand for six miles toour place of confinement, a stockade that hadbeen erected between the
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