Here, without shelter, without clothing, and with insufficient food, were confined the Yankee prisoners; and in a little inclosure, back of the judges’ stand, may be seen their uncounted graves.
Reid describes the harsh conditions faced by Union prisoners in Charleston, highlighting their suffering and the presence of their graves.
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With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.
But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.