NEW YORK, May 28 – Sick and wounded men who escaped from Strasburgh say that the rebels deliberately attacked our sick firing into the ambulances and upon the fainting men by the wayside, killing in cold blood men incapable of making resistance. The traitors displayed a white flag with black bars.
A letter from an Union prisoner at Richmond dated the last day of May describes with graphic force the terrible barbarities inflicted on our troops now in rebel hands.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 3
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