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Title: History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Curtis, O. B. (Orson Blair), 1841?-1901
Subjects: Michigan Infantry. 24th regiment, 1862-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Iron Brigade
Publisher: Detroit, Mich., Winn & Hammond
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nville in 1869, has he been able to collate theawful facts of this chapter. We offer no apology for this narration.The pen must convey thoughts which the tongue will hesitate toutter. By-gones may be by-gones with sentimentalists whose feelingsgo out to the authors, but never to the victims of crime. But zve cannever forget and zvill never forgive those in the South guilty of thebarbarisms practiced upon our unfortunate comrades whom thechances of war placed under their control. As martyr fires emblazonthe deeds of fanaticism and bigotry, and burnings at the stake lightenup the forest darkness among savages, so the records of Southernprison pens disclose the enormities of slaverys influence, which readlike pages from the history of hell! The captive insurgents were well fed, comfortably housed, and asgenerously treated as if they had been hospital patients of the Unionarmy. Not one of them ever died of starvation ; not one ever suffered (428) CONKl-.DKKATI-: IKISONS. 429 )il , If If I
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430 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN. for want of food, clothing or medical attention. Whatever mortalityprevailed among them was from natural causes, greatly from small-pox,the result of their own failure to vaccinate. Not so in the South withthe Union captives, where they had, for the most part, no shelterfrom storms, cold or sun heat other than dug-outs in the ground, withbut inadequate and the foulest food and water; and this, too, in sightof standing forests, the purest water, and an abundance of food, whichwere denied them. The scope of our work forbids a full treatment of this subject anddescriptions of those infernal prisons. Libby prison was a largewarehouse in Richmond, owned by Mr. Libby, a Unionist, whoseproperty was seized for prison uses. It was three stories high, besidesa basement. It contained six rooms, 40 by 100 feet each, in whichwere confined 1,500 Union officers and men, with no conveniences tocook, eat, wash their clothes, and bath, or even sleep except upo

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