The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1864., [Electronic resource]

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Yankee Barbarism.

Some of our lately-returned prisoners state that, last May, the Confederate prisoners at Point Lookout and Fort Delaware were vaccinated, by general order, and the vaccine matter turned out to be poisonous. Many of our men had their arms amputated, and a number died within a week after vaccination. Two of the men belonging to a Virginia regiment, who have lately returned as sick, are in a sad condition. The whole arm is inflamed and swollen, and the arm of one has lately broken out at the wrist in a terrible sore. There is a cankerous sore on the arm of the other, some four or five inches in diameter, and the flesh all around is perfectly black. The possibility is that both will lose their arms.

This same fiendish act was perpetrated on our Camp Chase prisoners in Ohio some two years ago, when many of our men were inoculated with a disease too horrible to mention, and died a loathsome death or were rendered miserable for life. Is there no limit to Yankee inhumanity?