Category: History - Other
TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO STEADILY UPHELD THE CAUSE OF CIVIL LIBERTY, AND WHO PREFERRED LINGERING DEATH, IN THE MIDST OF UNPARALLELED PRIVATIONS AND HORRORS, RATHER THAN DISHONOR AND DENIAL OF THEIR BIRTHRIGHTS, _THIS BOOK_ IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.
Fifteen hundred cubic inches, or twenty-two quarts, of carbonic acid are expired from the lungs every hour, and thrown off into the surrounding atmosphere. Besides this, Sequin...
6. Part 6That bacon was furnished, there is no doubt; neither has the quantity been underrated by the sufferers themselves, as we shall presently see. And there is no reason why the qual...
5. Part 5Physiologists divide alimentary substances into two classes: the nitrogenous, which, according to Dumas, supply the demands of assimilation, and the non-nitrogenous, which are c...
4. Part 4Sometimes the heavy rains washed away the roofs of mud, inundating the occupants beneath. Some of the poor wretches had not the strength to lift up the incumbent mass of earth,...
13. Part 13After these four centuries of occupation of the elevated plains and table-lands of Mexico, where the mean temperature does not exceed 77° Fahrenheit, and where the mildness of c...
7. Part 7In Catholic countries we observe the hospitals attended by nuns, sisters of mercy and charity, all eager to labor in behalf of humanity. Besides these, the deaconesses of the Rh...
3. Part 3Whatever rises above the level of this plain to commemorate for future ages the devotion of the men who sleep beneath, should be of lasting material, and as colossal as the giga...
2. Part 2Food was demanded, but it was wanting. Shelter and the pure air of heaven were prayed for by gasping men; even these, too, were wanting. Yet close by rose the gigantic pines, of...
9. Part 9Those who have observed the influence of atmospheric changes upon disease, will comprehend why the diarrhoea curve followed the line of high temperature, and how it progressed i...
15. Part 15Not until the star of Christianity rose above the horizon of the pagan and superstitious world, softening the hearts of men and revealing to them a new life, did Slavery vanish...
1. Part 1TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO STEADILY UPHELD THE CAUSE OF CIVIL LIBERTY, AND WHO PREFERRED LINGERING DEATH, IN THE MIDST OF UNPARALLELED PRIVATIONS AND HORRORS, RATHER THAN DISH...
12. Part 12I unite with you most cordially, sir, in desiring a speedy settlement of all these questions, in view of the great suffering endured by our prisoners in the hands of your author...
11. Part 11Colonel Hill, provost-marshal general Confederate States army, at Atlanta, stated to one of the undersigned that there were thirty-five thousand prisoners at Andersonville, and...
10. Part 1015. Military necessity admits of all direct destruction of life or limb of armed enemies, and of other persons whose destruction is incidentally unavoidable in the armed contest...
14. Part 14"The mongrel of the dog and jackal contains more of the jackal than the dog. It has the straight ears, the pendent tail; it does not bark; it is wild. It is more jackal than dog...
16. Part 16"Touching the Congressional report referred to, I have this to say: A month or two anterior to the date of said report, I learned from a government officer of respectability, th...
17. Part 17The Illustrations were drawn by the author from sketches upon the spot, and from photographs which were taken by the rebels during the occupation of the prison. The figures are...