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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 45: exchange of prisoners and Andersonville. (search)
ment on Johnson Island, which I had prepared by a committee of officers, was left with the secretary and is now beyond my reach. These facts would make all fair-minded men blush with shame. More than $3,000 had been retained by officials from remittances sent to prisoners by relatives and friends, as all our letters were opened. We were once three days and nights without any fire in our room or kitchen, during the most inclement weather of 1864. Walnut Springs, London, O., October 23, 1886. Extracts from these letters are given that our prisoners' side of the sufferings endured in the North may be duly weighed by the judgment of Northern people. No one book would hold all the evidence which could be adduced to prove the sufferings of our brave men in Northern prisons. Ours was a country devastated by invaders who carried a sword in one hand and a cord and torch in the other. The North was bountifully supplied with everything needful for comfort and luxury, but the