A Fort Donelson correspondent states that the bodies of several Union men, on which could be found no wounds, were discovered in Dover jail. It was supposed that they were either starved or poisoned, but all the rebels said they knew nothing about them. The Terre Haute Express, without apparently having heard the above particulars, states that one of the prisoners who passed through that place on Saturday, said that last summer eight Union men had been taken and confined at Dover Tennessee, and literally starved to death! This atrocity deserves a thorough investigation.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 4, 1862, p. 2
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I'm a Rebel through and through, but I agree, this atrocity needs to be investigated. This is the sort of occurrence that forces both sides to maintain generations of animosity. Great blog.
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