THE IMMORTAL SIX HUNDRED
they all seemed to be in good health, and had good clothes, which made the contrast between our haggard, ragged, emaciated crowd very perceptible. Our comrades brought out their stores of provisions and extra clothing, giving us freely all they could spare. What a grand chance the United States Sanitary Commission missed in not having a photograph made of the survivors of Secretary Stanton's brutality. What a grand contrast our photo would have made with those photos alleged to have been made at Andersonville and other Southern prisons after the surrender. It is a pity, indeed, those loyal souls who were ever anxious to stir the Northern heart did not have taken, for distribution in the North, our photos. Our condition would have brought the blush of shame to every Northern cheek, and made even Edwin M. Stanton turn pale at the sight of the victims of his brutality. We enjoyed the limited freedom of Fort Delaware. We were away from Colonel Hallowell and
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