Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-24
WARS HORRORS.
The Union Prisoners of War
 Graphic Statement.

The Union Prisoners of War-A
 Graphic Statement.
 President Camps address at the reunion of ex-prisoners of war at Hartford Monday was full of telling facts and figures, and is as follows:
 Comrades and Friends--I welcome you each and all to our tenth annual reunion. The survi- vors of Andersonville, Macon, Florence Savan- nah, Charleston, Salisbury, Richmond etc, are won't to meet and keep alive the fellowships of the south from 1881 to 1865. There they ing cred unsheltered from the burning rays of a
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 anS sy dhS thirst and mad with hunger, racked with pain or prostrated with the weakness of dissolution, these men, these heroes born in the image of God, the victims of a cool and calculating barbarity. realizing in the studied torments or Nilten's Hell" have compiled few sta leave to state; The whole number of federal of from 1881 to 1865 reduced to three years was a,s35, ,a5l. There were killed in action 4, sss. There were captured by the United States troops, s. 7ss; enlisted men, 4s5 s5sa total of 4saes4, of which 9, ,297 officers and 2s5, ,472 enlisted men or ses sd snd sf' number of rebel prisoners of war. who took @ A oee1s asssafe gen. eniistea sS tsa me1 listed in the United States army: ofacers, 1; en. listed men, 5,4i8. The number of prisoners of war held by tho United States who died in our hands were Officers, 597; enlisted men, 25,379, 6 total of 25. .976, of whom 1898 died of wounds re- records show the following captures by the con f@ederates: fed Federal officers, 7oes; enlisted men, legally parolled and exchanged, 154,7so illegally parolled, 1,14s; a total of 155,s73
 sonville E, 705, which number died between Feb ruary 24, 1864, and February 9, 1885. In August, 1884, 5000 deaths were registered. Out of 40,6t1 mpTisoneS there at various times ssA per eent were: Number of prisoners, 10, ,oo0; deaths during hor died at pf hospital No. 2i, Richmond, Ha Union prisoners that tsrm' 1'45o' the per cent of mortality being killed in action during the war A, ,2ss United States soldiers, the records show that 30 00l Union soldiers died in rebel prisons showing that l prison life was most fatal by . large percentage | the Unlon forces had equalled that of Union soldiers captured by them, taking the whole
 hands would have been ss,ooo, instead of s5 .s7s
 oners retained in custody on both sides, to wit 227, 7,57O Confederate prisoners in our hands to 94,
 OiS prlSOnerS In tnelr nandS, the mortality would | have been S8 GOO instead of 25,976 Instead oi
 this, the mortality is reversed, and out of a. 07;
 prisoners in confinement by the rebels 36 4O1 died
 while out of 227, ,570 in the hands of the federal | only 25, ,976 died In other words, nearly two out l of five, forty out of each hundred died ir | their hands, while one in seventeen, or six o1 ! each hundred, died in ours.
 | For 8 great amount Of this suffering and nor | tality we are well aware who was to blame: Johr l H. Winder, pliant tool of Jef Davis, 8 man des
 pissed by all humane people in Richmond: Sc ! terrible was his history that when he left Rich ! mond (the theater of his crimes) for Anderson l vile, the Richmond Examiner exclaimed: ''Thsnk 1 God that Richmond is at last rid of old Winder l God have mercy upon the se to whom he has beer | Sent.n