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Rebels At Manassas Testimony On War Atrocities
Testimony before the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the Present War details Rebel outrages after the Battle of Manassas. Witnesses, including Gen. James B. Ricketts and Dr. Hamilton, describe poor treatment of Union prisoners, cruel surgical practices, lack of water and food, and horrific conditions. Graves and desecration of bodies, including beheadings and burning, are also described, with governor William Sprague corroborating the brutality and vowing accountability.
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Manassas
Joint Committee
Nathaniel F. Parker
Falling Waters
Virginia
Tibbitts
New York Twenty-seventh Regiment
J. M. Hamiston
New York
Brooklyn
Bull Run
Darby
Prescott
Swalm
Corporal Prescott
William F. Swalm
N. Y
Sudley’s Church
Hamilton
Richmond
Ferguson
James B. Ricketts
Washington
Beauregard
United States Military Academy
Ricketts
Ramsay
Winder
Hamiston
Gen. Ricketts
Lewis House
Colonel Wilcox
Charleston
Col. Wilcox
Myself
Gordonsville
Francis
General Hospital
Fortress Monroe
Daniel Bixby, Jr
G. A. Smart
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Blackburn’s Ford
Pierce Butler
Butler
New Orleans
Frederick Scholes
Battle
Scholes
Ile
Simon Or
Simons
Hrampton
Benjamin Franklin Lewis
Hampton
Lewis
Louisiana ‘Tigers
General Wheat
Colonel Cameron
William Sprague
Rhode Island
Slocum
Ballou
Georgia
Major Ballou
Catonel Slocum
Colonel Slocum
Captain Tower