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The prisoners.

It is of course certain that every man of the prisoners, now here, especially the officers, will be held as guarantees of the proper treatment of our own men in Lincoln's hands. Sympathy with wretches who came here with the avowed purpose of rape and plunder, would be false to humanity them and hear ness to our own people.

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