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Identifier: suffendure00wilson (find matches)
Title: Sufferings endured for a free government;
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wilson, Thomas L., of Tennessee
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons Refugees -- Southern States United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Anecdotes
Publisher: (Philadelphia)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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. Major Houstain and Lieutenant Yon Weltrien, whoescaped from Richmond in November, 1863, stated, in a^conversation 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 rooni 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. Rev. 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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Private GEOEGE H. WIBLE,Company F, 9th Maryland Volunteers, Admitted from Flag-of-truce boat,April 18th, 1S64.—Wests Building Hospital, Baltimore, Md. 35 Condition of released prisoners. 45 WRETCHED CONDITION OF UNION PRISONERS,RELEASED FROM RICHMOND. The following is a simple statement of facts from agentleman of undovrbted veracity :— The flaor-of-truce boat New York arrived at the Navol o School wharf, Annapolis, Maryland, this morning, Octo-ber 30th, 1863, from City Point, with one hundred andeighty-one paroled men. Eight of the men died on theboat, on jts way hither. They had literally been starvedto death. Never, in the whole course of my life, have Iwitnessed such a scene as these men presented. Theywere living skeletons; every man of them had to be sentto the hospitals, and the surgeons opinion of them is,that more than one-third of them must die. They arebeyond the reach of medicine. I questioned several of them, and all stated that theircondition has been brought on by t

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