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The horror* of all prisons during that uufortuuute struggle were tie* plorable: in the South, through unavoidable necessity; In the North, through a spirit of unjust retsliation. In the matter of food, the South gave j its prisoners such as It gave its sol j diers, and enough to satisfy the demands of nature. This the writer has troin the lips of federal soldiers who were ia Southern prisons. In Northern prisons the quality of food j was better, but was not sufficient to satisfy the longings of hunger. Wo have known men In Northern prisons, wiio could obtaiu no means from home, to suffer the gnawing pangs of gradual starvation for a period ofsight mouths. This, we were told, was retaliation. In the same prlsou, bearing tbe name of Indiana's bloodthirsty Morton, we have known prisoners to frcer.c to death as we thought, but the verdict of the physician dif-1 lured with ours; that verdict was , that the Victim was not supplied with sufficient food to sustain the animal heat of the body. Hut all the instances of this character tiiat might | be adduced would not weigh as heavily in the scale of justice, nor tell a more piteous story, than the report of lire federal secretary of war abovequoted.
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Troy Herald
Troy, Missouri, US
Wed, Sep 15, 1875
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Jerry E.
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