THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED
war in Southern prisons, offered, if the United States Government would send transports, to turn over all prisoners held by the Confederate authorities, in humanity's name.
Here are two extracts from Union witnesses to prove on which side cruelty shall be charged, and I do not hesitate to say these witnesses do most effectively offset Libby or Andersonville if the stories of the prisons be true.
On February 9, 1862, Judge Ould, Confederate States Commissioner of Exchange wrote Colonel Ludlow, United States Exchange Commissioner:
"I see from your own papers that some dozen of our men, captured at Arkansas Pass, were allowed to freeze to death in one night at Camp Douglas. I appeal to our common instincts against such atrocious inhumanity."
(War Records, p. 257.)
There is no denial of this charge to be found in the War Records. On May 10, 1863, Dr. William H. Van Buren, of New York, on behalf of the United States
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