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012 - Appendix A - Contributory Testimony · Prison Life in Andersonville

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  Speaker 1: APPENDIXE of prison Life in Andersonville by John le V Miley.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recordings in the public domain recording by Jeffrey Smith,
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans, Louisiana, contributory testimony. Many narratives of experiences in
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  Speaker 1: the military prisons maintained by the government of the Confederate
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  Speaker 1: States of America during the Civil War have been written
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  Speaker 1: by Union officers and soldiers confined therein. With minor differences
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  Speaker 1: of statement arising from personal diversities, these testimonies as a
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  Speaker 1: whole established the fact of unprecedented suffering and mortality. Since
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  Speaker 1: the close of the Civil War, our government has unstintedly
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  Speaker 1: employed ability and money in compiling and publishing an exhaustive
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  Speaker 1: exhibit of the Union and Confederate records. These statistics and
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  Speaker 1: memoranda afford to the later historian abundant and reliable data,
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  Speaker 1: and upon his colnverdict we may rely for the substantial truth.
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  Speaker 1: The holding of prisoners during our Civil War was a
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  Speaker 1: matter of large concern. The number of Union soldiers captured
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  Speaker 1: was two hundred eleven thousand, four hundred eleven paroled on
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  Speaker 1: the field. Sixteen thousand, six hundred sixty nine died in
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  Speaker 1: captivity thirty thousand, two hundred eighteen. These last figures are
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  Speaker 1: defective of twelve Confederate prisons. The death registers of five
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  Speaker 1: are only partial, and of the emaciated men passed away
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  Speaker 1: soon after release. The number of Confederate soldiers captured was
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  Speaker 1: four hundred sixty two thousand, six hundred thirty five paroled
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  Speaker 1: on the field, two hundred fifty seven thousand, seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine died in captivity twenty five thousand, nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: seventy six. The percentage of deaths among the imprisoned Confederates,
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  Speaker 1: it will be seen, was far less than among the
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  Speaker 1: Union prisoners. The number of enlistments in the Union army
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  Speaker 1: was two million, eight hundred ninety eight thousand, three hundred
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  Speaker 1: four in the Confederate army from one million, two hundred
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine thousand to one million, four hundred thousand. The
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  Speaker 1: estimated cost of war to the North was five billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars and to the South three billion dollars. The above
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  Speaker 1: figures are taken from a History of the United States
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  Speaker 1: by James Ford Rhodes, L. D. LittD, who quotes from
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  Speaker 1: General F. C. Ainsworth, Chief of the Record and Pension office.
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  Speaker 1: We raise our father's banner, that it may bring back
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  Speaker 1: better blessings than those of old. That it may heal
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  Speaker 1: all jealousies, unite all policies, inspire a new national life,
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  Speaker 1: compact our strength, ennoble our national ambitions, and make this
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  Speaker 1: people great and strong, not for aggression and quarrelsomeness, but
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  Speaker 1: for the peace of the war, giving to us the
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  Speaker 1: glorious prerogative of leading all nations to juster laws, to
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  Speaker 1: more humane policies, to sincere friendship, to rational instituted civil liberty,
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  Speaker 1: and to universal Christian brotherhood. Address of H. W. Beecher
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  Speaker 1: at Fort Sumter flag Raising, April fifteenth, eighteen sixty five.
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  Speaker 1: End of Appendix A