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American Civil War
Volunteer Surgens
The commission appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission to investigate the matter, after a full and fair examination of the subject, taking evidence of both Union and rebel prisoners, says:
"No supposition of negligence, or thoughtlessness, or indifference, or accident, or inefficiency, or destitution, or necessity, can account for all this. So many and such positive forms of abuse and wrong cannot come from negative
causes.
The conclusion is unavoidable, therefore, that 'these privations and sufferings' have been 'designedly inflicted by the military and other authority of the rebel government, ' and cannot have been 'due to causes which such authorities could not control. ' "
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