THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED
government to place these prisoners in a position which will secure their extermination by pestilence in less than a year."
See also Report of United States Surgeon A. M. Clarke, Vol. VI, Series 71, p. 371, p. 113.
Now let me ask this question: Why did not the representatives of this same "Sanitary Commission," when they were publishing their slanderous report of September, 1864, as to the way Union prisoners were treated in Southern prisons, which report they illustrated with skeletons alleged to have come from Libby, Andersonville, and other prisons in the South, make at least mention of the condition of the things found by them in Camp Douglas and Gratiot Street prison hospitals?
One word on violation of the exchange cartel: On May 13, 1863, Judge Ould wrote Colonel Ludlow, calling his attention to the "large number of Confederate officers captured long since and still held by the United States," threat-
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