Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Murder of Union Soldiers in North Carolina: Letter From the Secretary of War, in Answer to a Resolution of the House of Representatives, of April 16, Transmitting the Report of Judge Advocate General Holt
It is the duty of every government to give protection to its citizens, of what ever class, color or condition, and especially to those organized as soldiers in the public service. The law of nations and the usages and customs of war, as car ried on by civilized powers, permit no distinction as to color in the treatment of prisoners of war as public enemies. To sell or enslave any captured person on account of his color, and for 110 offence against the laws of war, is a relapse in barbarism, and a brime against the civilization of the age.
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