The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-23
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The Washington, Nrtional Intelgi-
| gencsf publishes a communication
romJudge Ould, to that paper, On
the subject of the exchange Of prison
era during the last two years Of the
war. This Communication shows.
most conclusively, that to General
Grant attaches the responsibility for
all the suffering endured, not only
By Confederate prisoners III Northern
prison camps and hospitals, but for
that of Federal prisoners at Ander-
sonville, A1illen, Salisbury, Belle Isle
and elsewhere. It shows that after
the Confederate authorities expressed
a willingness to recede from the car
tel Of July, 1862, which demanded
that, after exchanging man for man,
the surplus on either side should be
paroied, and proposed to exchange
man for man, as dep,anded by the
United States authorities. General
Grant refused to let it be done, and
instructed Butler, then in command
at Fortress Monroe, ''not to take
another step by which another able
bodied man should be exchanged,
until further orders from him." and
| afterwards gave directions that the
matter of exchange should be put
Extensively to the Confederate autho-
rites, for the purpose Of fpreoenting an
erchdnge." It shows that the Con-
federate authorities offered to buy
medicines, to be used exclusively for
the benefit of Federal prisoners, and
to pay for them in gold, cotton or
tobacco, and that no response was
ever made to this proposition. This
is the most Infamous piece of
barbarity of which any people
claiming to be civilized, have been
guilty in the history of the world.
It also shows tina. the Confederate
authorities offered to send home
$4,000 sick and disabled men, in
Guiding the sick at Andersonville,
without an exchange, if the United
States would furnish transportation !;
that this proposition was made early
in the summer of 1864, and that this
transportation was not furnished un-
til late in November, of that year,
thus leaving these men to swelter un-
der the heat of burning sun for
four months in the prison camps at
Andersonville, Millen, Florence and
Columbia. The communication proves
that Grant was just as reckless of the
health and lives of the unfortunate
men in the prison camps and hospi-
sals as he was of his soldiers in the
field, when he spent 10000 lives to
place his army in position below
Richmond, that he could have gained
without the loss of o single life. 1t
fixes upon him responsibility from
which he cannot escape, and which
human ingenuity cannot evade or ex-
plain away. The facts stated by Judge
Ould are corroborated by Buffers
report, which should be on file in the
War Office in Washington. This re-
cord places Grant, in heartlessness,
far above all the military butchers of
whom history gives any account. The
Richmond E.rdminer and Enquirer
hopes Union soldiers, and the friends
of the men who died in Southern
prisons, will now place the blame
where it rightfully belongs.o In the
preface to these communications, Mr..
Ould says: 81 have recently seen so
many misrepresentation of the ac-
tions of the late Confederate authori-
ties in relation to prisoners, that I
feel it due to the truth Of history,
and peculiarly incumbent on me as
their agent of exchange, to bring to
the attention of the country the facts
set forth in this paper"
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