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Civil War American National Cemeteries
He saw them, conversed with them, provided hospital attendance for a shorter or longer time for 3, 000 or 4, 000 of them, and buried them by scores and hundreds. To say that they had been treated as well as possible, to say that they had not been neglected and brutally misused to a degree that amounted to murder, is an infamous and damnable falsehood. "
At this place a beautiful cemetery has been, completed, containing nearly thirteen thousand graves of Union soldiers. Michigan gave to this sacrifice six hundred and twenty-three braves, who, sooner than accept the standing proposition to enter the rebel ranks and disown their State and fight against their country, became victims of the horrid ordeal, suffering death by starvation, extreme exposure, and every conceivable infliction of brutal cruelty at the hands of rebel officials, with the full knowledge and sanction of the Richmond authorities.
National Cemeteries of the Civil War
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