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2592

Cleveland Morning Leader, 1 March 1864 (ed; 4 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

2592 - L. Mar. 1; ed: 2/1 - Rebel leaders are a singularly honorable
class of persons. They have many scruples as to the society they circu-
late in. They hold no communications with men whom they have outlawed
and think unfit for their society. This prevents exchange of prisoners.
"Possibly time will work a cure in these over-sensitive rebels." (4)

Index terms:

*Prisons & Prisoners (Civil War)

2593

Cleveland Morning Leader, 2 April 1864 (ed; 12 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

2593 - L Apr. 2; ed: 2/1 - Stories of Jeff Davis prisoners who have es-
caped from their cruel tormentors or have been exchanged, all prove
that the most barbarous treatment has been suffered by them.
"May a speedy delivery come to our men in their hands and a right-
eous retribution upon the heads of all rebels." (12)

Index terms:

Davis, Jeff

2594

Cleveland Morning Leader, 21 April 1864 (ed; 6 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

2594 - L Apr. 21; ed:2/1 - The Rebels murdered every colored soldier
at Fort Pillow. "And yet there are some cowardly traitors to their
country who wish to capitulate to the armed barbarism of the South." (6)

Index terms:

Fort Pillow, Miss.; South

2595

Cleveland Morning Leader, 21 April 1864 (ed; 5 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

2595 - L Apr. 21; ed:2/1 - Congress has grown indignant about the mas-
sacre at Fort Pillow and is anxious to have our soldiers respected.
"Congress has done itself no credit in the manner in which it has
been dealing with our black soldiers. Will they, now that the indig-
nant inquisition is begun, not look into this injustice now being done
to the black soldiers?" (5)

Index terms:

Fort Pillow, Miss.; U. S. Congress

2596

Cleveland Morning Leader, 26 April 1864 (ed; 5 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

2596 - L Apr. 26; ed:2/2 - Davis has a reputation of unbending obstinacy
and hauteur; but that is for his friends. He is polite and reasonable
when the public enemy commands him, at his peril, to eat his own words
and come down from his high horse. "Davis has not hanged General
Butler as he threatened to do, but found himself compelled to negotiate
with him for the exchange of prisoners." (5)

Index terms:

Butler, General; Davis, Jeff

2597

Cleveland Morning Leader, 26 April 1864 (ed; 8 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

2597 - L Apr. 26; ed:2/2 - The description given of 563 prisoners
landed at Baltimore is sickening. They receive terrible treatment in
Rebel prisons.
"Christian magnanimity can go no further. The hellish atrocities
of these fiends must be retaliated." (8)

Index terms:

Baltimore, M.J., (Cont'd); Confederacy

2598

Cleveland Morning Leader, 26 May 1864 (ed; 3 inches) ~ See original
p.1, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

2598 - L. May 26; ed: 1/2 - The telegraph reports that Pollard editor
of the Richmond EXAMINER, has been captured in war.
"Here is an opportunity for retaliation or exchange for northern
newspaper correspondents, who are held by the enemy, by a most wanton
barbarity." (3)

Index terms:

Pollard (editor); Richmond EXAMINER; Richmond Va.

2599

Cleveland Morning Leader, 3 June 1864 (ed; 7 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

2599 - L June 3; ed: 2/1 - The Chicago TIMES copies from the Richmond
ENQUIRER an article about Southern prisoners' treatment in the North.
Prisoners are compelled to do police duty in their camps.
"The insolent arrogance of a complaint like this is something wonder-
ful, but still more wonderful is the fact that it is copied, uncommented
on, into a Northern sheet." (7)

Index terms:

Chicago, Ill.; Chicago TIMES; North; Richmond ENQUIRER; Richmond Va.

2600

Cleveland Morning Leader, 7 June 1864 (ed; 12 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.4 ~ View at ChronAm

2600 -- L June 7, ed:4/4 - In a letter to the editor, Dr. Starkey sends
four photographs showing some of the cruelties practiced on Northern -
soldiers by Rebels. (Pictures are exhibited at Sargeant's store.) He
says lack of food causes nausea, indigestion, weakness, and death.
among the soldiers. The doctor hopes that doubting people will. view
these photographs and become convinced. - -
"The value of these photographs consists in the silent, mournful,
but irrefragible witness they bear to the tales of rebel cruelty." . . (12)

Index terms:

Sargeants store; Starkey, Dr.

2601

Cleveland Morning Leader, 7 June 1864 (5 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.4 ~ View at ChronAm

2601 - L June 7:4/4 - In a letter to the editor, Dr. E. Wallace sends
four photographs showing the cruelty of Rebels to Union soldiers. Dr.
Wallace says that twice he has been to the U. S. general hospital, di-
vision No. 1, at Annapolis, Md., and has witnessed cases of cruelty
that brought tears to his eyes. Ile says: "Show these pictures far and
wide, for they speak the truth and nothing but the truth - though but -
a small part of the truth." (5)

Index terms:

Union army; U. S. general hospital; Wallace," Dr. E.

2602

Cleveland Morning Leader, 8 June 1864 (ed; 5 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.4 ~ View at ChronAm

2602 - L June 8; ed: 2/4 - The Cincinnati ENQUIRER scoffs at the stories
and pictures which have been circulated of cruel treatment received by
Union prisoners at the hands of the Rebels.
"In this sad and awful spectacle of miseries unparalleled in the
story of mankind, the ENQUIRER - devoted as ever to the slave aristo-
cracy - finds only fit matter for ridicule and ribaldry." (5)

Index terms:

Cincinnati, O.; Cincinnati ENQUIRER; Union

2604

Cleveland Morning Leader, 23 July 1864 (4 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

2604 - L July 23:2/2 - In a letter to the editor, an officer in a Macon,
Georgia prison tells of conditions there. He says that although they
receive some meat, the bread rations have been cut, and that without
money many will suffer. They are encamped in a grove, and the cold
night air from the dew and the cold is making many of the men ill.
"I am almost naked - no hat, no coat, or drawers; pants 'seatless' and - -
boots on last 'tour of duty.'" (4)

Index terms:

Georgia; Macon, Ga.

2605

Cleveland Morning Leader, 11 August 1864 (ed; 6 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

2605 - L. Aug. 11; ed: 2/1 - The reasons why so many thousands of prisoners
are held by the Rebels and by the Union are because the authorities on
both sides cannot agree as to the number of paroled and exchanged
prisoners; also to the recognition by Rebel authorities of Negro soldiers
as prisoners of war. - -
Prisoners taken by the Rebels are treated poorly, being half starved
and lacking medical care, while prisoners taken by the North are treated
just the opposite. - -
"The duty of the government is that of retaliation, until every man. .
wearing the uniform of an American soldier is respected." (6)

Index terms:

Confederacy; Confederate Army; Union

2606

Cleveland Morning Leader, 26 August 1864 (ed; 10 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

2606 - L. Aug. 26; ed:2/2 - Thirty-five thousand Union men are imprisoned
in Andersonville, Ga., and conditions are pitiable, to say the least.
They are exposed to the terrific heat of the sun by day, and the damp-
ness of the dew by night. Many of them are suffering from disease and
some even lose their minds. Others go across the "dead line" and beg
to be shot to end their misery.
This cruel policy has heen executed by the Rebels to compel the
government to accede to their terms of exchange.
"Why do not the friends of the chivalry here in the North lay before
their readers a statement of the cruel ties practiced upon our soldiers,
and seize every opportunity to declaim against any apparent severity
towards rebel prisoners in the North, while they have not a manly word
of condemnation for the way cur brave boys are murdered in the South."
(10)

Index terms:

Andersonville, Ga.; North; South; Union party

2608

Cleveland Morning Leader, 9 September 1864 (ed; 17 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

2608 - L Sept. 9; ed: 2/1 - The Rebel Commissioner Ould professes to be
affected by the condition of the Union soldiers held in the South, and
offers to make an exchange. But he makes no concessions on the sub-
ject of Negro soldiers.
General Butler refuses to exchange "until every man dressed in the
uniform of a United States soldier shall be recognized and treated as
a soldier, not as one to be sold into slavery.
The Rebels at present treat all colored soldiers as runaway slaves.
All officers of colored regiments, by an order from Jeff Davis which
has not yet been repealed, are delivered over to the state authorities
to be treated as criminals subject to death.
The position of Butler is sustained by every principle of national
and municipal law.
"Their sºameful abuse of our men in Georgia, over which Ould af-
fects to shed tears, has been solely for the purpose of compelling our
government to barter away its honor and its faith which it pledged to
every black man on entering the Army." (17)

Index terms:

Butler, General; Davis, Jeff; Georgia; Ould (Confederate commissioner); Union; U. S. army

2609

Cleveland Morning Leader, 14 November 1864 (ed; 11 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

2609 - L Nov. 14; ed:2/2 - "When history with her impartial pen, re-
cites the story of these times she will chronicle the treatment which
has been bestowed upon the Union and rebel prisoners in the North and
South." -
Cnristian care has been shown to Rebel prisoners taken by the North,
but just the opposite treatment was accorded to the Union prisoners .
taken by the South. They were starved, robbed, confined in a small
crowded disinal quarters, and tortured to their graves.
"Jeff Davis cannot deny these facts. History will prove where the
guilt of cruelty lies." (11)

Index terms:

Confederate Army; Davis, Jeff; North; South; Union; Union army

2611

Cleveland Morning Leader, 28 November 1864 (ed; 5 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

2611 - L Nov. 28; ed:2/2 - The report of the exchange of prisoners at
Savannah is full of "terrible interest." The barbarous cruel ties of
the Rebels toward Union soldiers are fully confirmed from independent
and indisputable sources. Ancther fact established is that the Rebel
authorities have made the Union soldiers believe that they have been
cruelly abandoned by their government. - -
"By operating upon them in this way, large numbers have been induced
to join the rebel forces in order to escape the horrors of confinement
in those hells which rebels call prisons. The return of those already
exchanged, will create deepest indignation among the people, and a just
sense of the barbarous character of the enemy with which we are fight-
ing." - - - - (5)

Index terms:

Confederacy; Savannah, Ga.; Union

2612

Cleveland Morning Leader, 13 December 1864 (ed; 5 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

2612 - L Dec. 13; ed: 2/1 - Nothing can exceed the atrocities of the
Rebel officers toward the Union soldiers. They will forever be branded
as "the basest of all creatures permitted to live. The cruel ties in-
flicted are worthy of the ingenuity of friends, and such as a Northern
Freeman would not inflict upon a dog. In the midst of these cruelties,
rebel recruiting officers attempted to bribe Union prisoners into rebel
service and in many instances succeeded, because of the fact that these
prisoners were eager to be released from rebel prisons. Thank God the
exchange of prisoners is still going on and some may yet be saved who
would otherwise die in Southern prisons." (5)

Index terms:

Confederate Army; Union army

2613

Cleveland Morning Leader, 15 December 1864 (2 inches) ~ See original
p.3, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

2613 - L. Dec. 15:3/2 - According to the rules of Libby prison, letters
written by the confined soldiers can only contain six lines. For example:
"My dear wife - Yours received - no hopes of exchange - send corn starch -
want socks -- no money - Rheumatism in left shoulder - pickles very good -
send sausage - God bless you - kiss the baby - Hail Columbia - Your de-
voted husband." ... (2)

Index terms:

Libby prison; *Prisons & Prisoners (Civil War)