Martyria; or, Andersonville PrisonHamlin, Augustus C. (Augustus Choate)
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Martyria; or, Andersonville Prison
Hamlin, Augustus C. (Augustus Choate)
Andersonville Prison; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
_Relates to the Mortality as compared with that of our
Armies and Prisons, also with Foreign Armies, Prisons,
and Hospitals, &c._ 113-142
BOOK SEVENTH.
_Relates to the Legal Right of Death over the Captive,
with the Views of the Ablest Writers of Past Times,
Rousseau, Montesquieu, Mirabeau, &c. The Treatment of
Prisoners of War by the Rebels contrasted with Usages of
Civilized Nations. Regulations of the United States. Letter
of General Butler on the Exchange of Prisoners. Complicity
of Jeff Davis, &c., &c._ 142-194
BOOK EIGHTH.
_Review of the Physical and Moral Causes,--Climatological,
Ethnological, Social, &c.,--that have led to the Degeneration
of the White Race in the South, and the consequent Degree
of Perversity and Barbarity, &c._ 194-242
APPENDIX.
_Notes. Statistical Tables. General Orders of the United
States in Reference to Treatment of their Prisoners._ 243-254
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