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Title: History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Curtis, O. B. (Orson Blair), 1841?-1901
Subjects: United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 24th (1862-1865) United States. Army Michigan Infantry Regiment, 24th (1861-1965) United States. Army Iron Brigade United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental historiese
Publisher: Detroit, Mich., Winn & Hammond
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hed within seven miles of thispost, open upon the stockade with grapeshot, without reference to the situation beyondthese lines of defense. JOHN H. WINDER,Brig. Gen. Commanding. Thus twenty-five cannon were to be opened upon the 35,000 sickand dying Union prisoners, rather than suffer them to be rescued ! It waslike savages who tomahawk their captives when re-capture is probable.And now come forward the apologists of such murderers and declarethat these facts had better never been written. Then expurgate theaccount of the crucifixion from the testament, burn all history andleave but oblivion. Let these truths stand prominently out as beaconlights to the civilized world what demons the system of human slaverywill make. They show pointedly, also, the sacrifices and cost topreserve this nation. Confederate testimony is ample in substantiating the universalnarratives of the Union survivors of those prison pens. The archivesof the Confederate War Department furnish conclusive confirmations
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A SECTION OF ANDERSONVILLE PRISON. FROM A REBEL PHOTOGRAPH. 444 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN. of their horrible accounts. When Winder was laying out theAndersonville pen, he told Mr. Ambrose Spencer, a resident of Americus, Ga., near by, The Yankees who would be put in the pen would need no barracks. When asked why he was cuttingdown all the trees, Winder replied: I am going to build a pen here that will kill more Yankees than can be destroyed at the front. The Confederate records show that the attention of JeffersonDavis was repeatedly called to these enormities, by the Andersonvillesurgeons. The receipts of such letters and reports were acknowledgedand confessed by indorsement on their back in Jefferson Davis ownhandwriting! In August, 1864, when the pen contained 35,000 menLieutenant-Colonel D. T. Chandler, C. S. A., after officiallyinspecting the Andersonville prison, thus reported to Jefferson Davis: There is no medical attendance provided within the stockade. Small quan

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