American bastile. A history of the illegal arrests and imprisonment of American citizens in the northern and border states during the late civil war (1883) (14762809245)

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Title: American bastile. A history of the illegal arrests and imprisonment of American citizens in the northern and border states ... during the late civil war
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Marshall, John A
Subjects: Martial law
Publisher: Philadelphia, T.W. Hartley & Co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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nd theenormities that ensued exceeded those perpetrated uponpeaceable Christian communities by the Mohammedans. They drove the minister from his home, and after reveng-ing himself by ministering to the soldiers who had oppressedhim, upon the field of battle, in the prisons, etc., binding uptheir wounds, and administering to them the consolations ofreligion in the hour of death, and after having the satisfac-tion of holding back the soldiers of the Confederate Statesfrom interrupting another minister, when praying for Presi-dent Lincoln, he awaits the grand conclusion of these things.It is said that a stranger, who was present on the occasion ofthis sacrilege, observed, If the men engaged in this affair donot all meet with some signal judgment of the Almighty, I shallbegin to question the truth of religion I Rev. Mr. Stewart is now located at Spotswood, New Jer-sey, is a faithful servant in the cause of Christ, and isthe author of Commentaries on Revelation, and otherreligious works. I
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MRS. MARY B. MORRIS. THE subject of this narrative, Mrs. Mary B. Morris, suf-fered, perhaps, as great indignities, and was subjected toas much cruel and barbarous treatment as any other personincarcerated in the Bastiles of the country during the war.This lady, whose noble nature is overflowing with the milkof human kindness, was born in Kentucky, and reared be-neath a Southern sky. Having removed to Chicago, someten or twelve years before the breaking out of the war, withher husband, Hon. B. S. Morris, who was a staunch sup-porter and able leader of the Whig party in the State ofIllinois, and who looked upon secession as being whollywrong, it was natural that she should entertain the sameviews. But it was equally natural that, when the waractually commenced, and the tread of hostile armies waspressing the soil that gave her birth, her sympathies shouldbe enlisted in behalf of those who were near and dear toher by the ties of consanguinity and friendship — that herprayers should go