Treatment of Prisoners of War. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, In the Senate of the United States, January 29th, 1865, on the Resolution of the Committee on Military Affairs, Advising Retaliation in kind for Rebel Cruelties to Prisoners.
New York: Young Men's Republican Union, 1865. First Edition. Octavo, 8 pages, publisher's original tied wraps. A scarce Civil War pamphlet printing Charles Sumner’s Senate speech on the treatment of prisoners of war, delivered January 29, 1865, during the bitter national debate over whether the Union should retaliate in kind for Confederate cruelties to captured Union soldiers. Sumner, the prominent Massachusetts abolitionist senator, opposed barbarous reprisal measures, arguing that the United States must not degrade its national character by imitating the inhumanity it condemned. A significant wartime statement on military ethics, prisoners of war, retaliation, humanitarian conduct, and the laws of civilized warfare, issued in the final months of the Civil War amid mounting public outrage over rebel prison camps. Some minor discoloration, a few creases, torn along spine, chips to corners with no loss of text, else in good + condition. Item #309
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