This report to the Senate outlines the treatment of Union prisoners of war by the Confederate forces at Belle Isle. "Your committee, therefore, are constrained to say that they can hardly avoid the conclusion, expressed by so many of our released soldiers, that the inhuman practices herein referred to are the result of a determination on the part of the rebel authorities to reduce our soldiers in their power, by privation of food and clothing, and by exposure, to such a condition that those who may survive shall never recover so as to be able to render any effective service in the field." An engraving of Private L. H. Parham, who died May 10, 1864 "from effects of treatment while in the hands of the enemy," as published in "In the Senate of the United States. May 9, 1864 ... : report of the Sub-Committee on Returned Prisoners."
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Washington : G.P.O., 1864
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Gift of George H. Jackson, Jr., M.D., to the Library of Harvard Medical School, 1929.
