THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED
field. The United States had the world from which to draw their army and their supplies; the Confederacy had but a small area, without the slightest chance of getting supplies from the outside world save when a blockade runner could slip through the fleets blockading our ports. Neither the men responsible for the wanton cruelty nor their apologists can give a valid reason for the inhuman treatment meted out to us on Morris Island, Hilton Head, and Fort Pulaski.
The following two letters,—found in Vol. XXXV, War Records,—show beyond question that the United States Government officials at Washington, with Gen. J. G. Foster, made preparation for the infliction of their brutality upon us, and that Col. E. N. Hallowell, 54th Regt. Mass. Vols, (niggers), was chosen as commandant of our camp because of his brutal nature—just the man to carry out the beastly orders Gen. J. G. Foster, U. S. A., might issue by authority of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War.
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