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American Civil War
Volunteer Surgens
The assertions generally advanced by the people and press of the southern States in refutation of the charges of cruelty to Union prisoners, that they received as good treatment as rebel prisoners did at the hands of the North, have been unquestionably proved erroneous. That this has been established beyond a doubt it is but necessary to investigate the matter by a reference to the most reliable statements which have become a part of the war history, and which were verified by personal observation of the good condition of the rebel prisoners when exchanged, as compared with the Union men with their emaciated and fearfully deformed bodies, a result of untold tortures administered -with diabolical and criminal intent upon the unarmed and helpless captives, unheard of in the histories of the past, the responsibility of which can never be removed from the confederate government or excused by its apologists, but will
be handed down the vista of time as without a parallel in barbarous cruelty.
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