Publisher's Synopsis
I do not blame him for refusing to exchange prisoners, nor President Davis for allowing them to starve and freeze. Both were right, if war is right. It was expedient that thirty, fifty, or a hundred thousand of us should perish, or be rendered physically incapable of bearing arms again. The -deep damnation of the taking off- was due not to individual depravity but to military necessity. H. B. S. Brighton, Mass., U. S. A., 1915.