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   tongue of slander with cruelty to prisoners of war.

I will corroborate my story of the Immortal Six Hundred by the official records, so far as the United States Government has printed the record under the supervision of the War Department.

As stated before, this history is of the Six Hundred Immortals only. What led up to this cruel retaliation upon the six hundred prisoners of war by the United States Government is not very clear. From the official records we can only glean the fact that much stock was taken in the word and stories told by deserters, runaway niggers, and scallawags generally, without the least attempt by the United States officials to verify the truth of their statements. Below is the official correspondence.