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Title: Minutes U.C.V
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: United Confederate Veterans. cn Mickle, William English, b. 1846. 2n Harris, Nathaniel Edwin, 1846-1929. The Civil War (OCoLC)4539048 3n United Confederate Veterans. Convention (1889 : New Orleans, La.). Proceedings of the convention for organization, and adoption of the constitution of the United Confederate Veterans (OCoLC)11772606 3n United Confederate Veterans. The flags of the Confederate States of America (DLC) 07028612 (OCoLC)1845883 1n
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Publisher: New Orleans, La., United Confederate Veterans
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ion of these prisoners was broughtabout not by the want in the Confederate States, but by a crueland malignant desire to destroy their captives; and thus tora little while the greatest question in the Southern mind andheart was the repudiation of this infamous charge. But, after all, truth has a marvelous fasciatien for thehuman mind. In the depths of every soul there is a basicprinciple which demands justice and absolute fairness. Recon-struction and negro domination were the burning issues foreleven years; and when these no longer overshadowed the hori-zon with darkness, the nun of the South had time to look aftertheir reputation. As a rule records cannot lie; and when recordswere appealed to, it was found that prisoners in the North wererelatively subjected to wrongs and privations t:\v greater thanthose to which Northern prisoners in the South were subjected.Men began to understand that, while the North was a land ofplenty, in which there was no want of food, no scarcity of cloth-
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a 92 Twentieth Reunion, Mobile, Ala., April 26, 27and28,1910. ing, and no absence of medicine, proportionately more Southernmen died in Northern prisons, with all these favorable condi-tions surrounding them, than Northern soldiers had died inSouthern prisons. It took a long series of investigations andrequired great patience and research, and at that particularperiod it took a high order of courage to bring out these dis-mal facts and to demonstrate that, moved by the necessitiesof war, the United States had deliberately and willfully re-fused to supply its own prisoners with medicines, refused alloffers to exchange them, preferring that the Union soldiers shouldremain as a burden upon Confederate hands, and in thousands ofcases suffer death, rather than allow the Southern men whowere confined in Northern prisons to return to the armies oftheir country to assist their comrades in their struggle forliberty. The proven truth of this one thing was the grandest of allthe triumphs of the

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