United States. Congress House of Representatives. Report # 67. Returned Prisoners.

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GLC#
GLC00267.358
Type
Books & pamphlets
Date
1864
Author/Creator
United States. Congress
Title
House of Representatives. Report # 67. Returned Prisoners.
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
30 p. : Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 16 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

38th Congress, 1st session. Signed by W. L. Ransom. Report made by Daniel Gooch of the Joint Committee on the Conduct and Expenditures of the War. Describes in detail the harsh treatment endured by prisoners of war and the destitute condition of the returned Union prisoners: "The evidence proves, beyond all manner of doubt, a determination on the part of the rebel authorities, ... to subject those of our soldiers who have been so unfortunate as to fall in their hands to a system of treatment which has resulted in reducing many of those who have survived and been permitted to return to us to a condition, both physically and mentally, which no language we can use can adequately describe." Includes letters, and testimony of prisoners of war and surgeons to prove the point. Includes four pages of engravings of starving Union prisoners of war.

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