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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)
nging of Wirtz, but attributes the responsibility of murdering thousands of Union soldiers to the hellish malice of the representative men of the Southern Confederacy, two of the most prominent of whom were Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, displays on his own part a blind malice, only equalled by his profound ignorance of the facts, We shall hereafter pay our respects to some of these remarkable utterances— remarkable for one writing in 1882 instead of 1865—and show up their utter absurdity. Meantime, if Mr. Gerrish can produce a single one of the orders from General Lee or President Davis, or any other prominent Confederate leader which, either directly or indirectly, approved of cruelty to prisoners, he will make a contribution to history, which Holt and his infamous band of Perjurers, in the days when the Bureau of Military Justice was flourishing, sought for in vain. But despite of these very serious blots, it is a well written book, which we advise our friends to read.