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Title: Sufferings endured for a free government;
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wilson, Thomas L., of Tennessee
Subjects: Refugees -- Southern States United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Anecdotes
Publisher: Philadelphia, King & Baird
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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. Major Houstain and Lieutenant Yon Weltrien, whoescaped from Eichmond in ISTovember, 1863, stated, in aconversation at Fort Monroe, that the cries of the pri-soners for food were piteous, and the ravings of the men,rendered insane in many instances by the pangs of hun-ger, sounded through the Libby building night and day.One man in the room with Major Houstain was so pros-trated by want of food, that when a piece of bread wasthrown to him by his brutal jailor, he had not the strengthto eat it, and died with the scrap in his hand, clutchingin death the very staff of life. Eev. James Harvey,Chaplain of the Hundred-and-Tenth Ohio Yolunteers, whowas taken prisoner at Winchester, Ya., says: After spend-ing three days in connection with our hospitals in gath-ering up our wounded, I found in the dead-room of oneof our hospitals files of men who were lying in a stateof decomposition. The nurses told me that they couldnot be taken out, as the stench was such that the roomcould not be entered.
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Pkivate GEORGE II. WIBLE,Company F, 9th Maryland Volunteers, Admitted from Fia,,-of-truce boat,Ai)ril ISth, 186-1.—Wests Building Hospital, Baltimore, Md. 35

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