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From the Richmond Daily Dispatch,
Wednesday, 5/13/1863, page 1.
The
Yankee Prisoners. It gives us no pleasure
to look at Yankee prisoners. We generally turn away when they approach, and look
at something more agreeable. But for the first time yesterday we scanned
critically the faces of these creatures, rapt in a spirit of insult, but to
observe what manner of men they are. For the most part the arrivals yesterday
were well clothed, had good shoes, and appeared to be well fed. Many of them
were young, but the great mass large and able-bodied. Their faces, however, were
very different from the open, earnest elevated faces of our men. The expression
was sensual, selfish, secretive, which are the prevalent characteristics of
their race. In these respects the officers are as bad as the men. Some of the
officers who were brought prisoners from Guinea’s a week ago looked with
licentious leers upon the ladies who surrounded the cars, and altogether, from
all we can learn, presented as debased specimens of humanity as any in the
ranks. We would advise our people to have nothing to say to these people, and to
hold no intercourse with them of any kind. They do not deserve a look, they are
too much honored by a word, from those whom they came to butcher and destroy.
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