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The order is given to harass, starve, expose, and torture, say twenty thousand prisoners in our hands, until their bones pierce the skin, and they die idiots in their filth.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The order is given to harass, starve, expose, and torture, say twenty thousand prisoners in our hands, until their bones…”
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Sumner condemns the inhumane treatment of prisoners during the Civil War.
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