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Yankee inhumanity at Gettysburg...
Yankee inhumanity at Gettysburg...
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July 24, 1863
THE RICHMOND WHIG, Virginia, July 24, 1863
* Post Gettysburg Confederate wounded
* From the capital of the Confederacy
Certainly one of the less common titles of the capital of the Confederacy. The top of the front page has a lengthy editorial titled "Yankee Humanity" which is very critical of the northern policies, citing some examples including: "Agents of states charged with the care of the wounded come hither from the field of Gettysburg & state that thousands of rebel wounded are yet unprovided with shelter or surgical treatment...Sixteen days after the battle, not one or two, ten or twenty, but thousands of Southern soldiers are left on the ground with no covering but the sky, no surgical treatment, and, doubtless, little food. The gentle citizens of Gettysburg, who locked their pumps up & sold water to their own soldiers, pass & repass these wounded rebels day after day & pay no more attention to them than so many dying dogs. Indeed, they begin to complain that dead & wounded rebels smell badly...This is the way the Yankee humanitarians raise the black flag over the dying. Who can tell the horrors of that luckless field of Gettysburg, & who will paint the fiendish form of Lincoln & Seward driving off thee volunteer surgeons & nurses?. But the Yankee Government is not content to murder the wounded only; it must kill the well, also..." and much more. And it ends with: "...these extracts alone prove that the world was never cursed with a race so identical with the very devils in hell as the Yankees. Will the just Judge of all the earth allow them to go unpunished?"
The front page has other war-related items as well including: "The Siege of Charleston--The Yankee Accounts" which takes over a full column; "Morgan's Raid Into Indiana" and "The Wytheville Raid".
There is war content on the back page as well, with: "Wooden-Sold Shoes", "The Gallant Lynchburgers", "A Golden Monitor", "The Signal Corps--Gen. McClellan", "The Murder of Two Confederate Officers Proposed", "Vice President Stephens", "The Yankee Raid I North Carolina" and a bit more. Also many ads.
Complete as a single sheet newspaper with a one column masthead (see), mild wear at the folds, some staining, generally good.
Category: Confederate
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