Lights And Shadows in Confederate Prisons
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I insisted that this success would be cheaplybought, even if it cost, as it probably would, a hundred lives.
Of all our thirty field officers, only one opposed the scheme(Lieut. -Col. G----). He was acknowledged to be brave, [5] but seeminglylacking in enterprise. He said in substance, "I have carefully examinedthe situation, and have come to the conclusion that it is utterlyuseless to attempt to escape by force. It can't be done at present. Weshould be slaughtered by the hundred. If you all vo...te to try it, I willjoin you; but in my opinion it is perfect madness. " With but one dissenting voice it was resolved to go ahead. A committeeof five was immediately appointed to prepare and present a plan ofaction. This committee were Colonel Ralston; Col. W. Ross Hartshorne, 190th Pa. (the famous "Bucktail Regiment, " whose first colonel, O'Neil, my Yale classmate, was killed at Antietam); Col. James Carle, 191st Pa. ;Major John Byrne, 155th N. Y. ; and myself, Lieutenant-Colonel of the13th Conn.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I insisted that this success would be cheaplybought, even if it cost, as it probably would, a hundred lives.
Of all our thirty field officers, only one opposed the scheme(Lieut. -Col. G----). He was acknowledged to be brave, [5] but seeminglylacking in enterprise. He said in substance, "I have carefully examinedthe situation, and have come to the conclusion that it is utterlyuseless to attempt to escape by force. It can't be done at present. Weshould be slaughtered by the hundred. If you all vo...te to try it, I willjoin you; but in my opinion it is perfect madness. " With but one dissenting voice it was resolved to go ahead. A committeeof five was immediately appointed to prepare and present a plan ofaction. This committee were Colonel Ralston; Col. W. Ross Hartshorne, 190th Pa. (the famous "Bucktail Regiment, " whose first colonel, O'Neil, my Yale classmate, was killed at Antietam); Col. James Carle, 191st Pa. ;Major John Byrne, 155th N. Y. ; and myself, Lieutenant-Colonel of the13th Conn.
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