Charles Sumner: “The dead men’s bones are the remains of faithful Union soldiers, dead on innumerable fields, or stifled in the pens of…”

“The dead men’s bones are the remains of faithful Union soldiers, dead on innumerable fields, or stifled in the pens of Andersonville and Belle Isle,--also of constant Unionists, white and black, whom we are sacredly bound to protect, now murdered on highways and by-ways, or slaughtered at Memphis and New Orleans.”