ame as sheep and horses, to be bought and sold
at will,--when captured in battle, fighting against them for the Union
and their own freedom?

The report of the Congressional Committee furnishes ample proof of the
barbarities:

38TH CONGRESS, } {REP. COM.
_1st Session._ } {_No. 68._

"IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

"_Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct and
Expenditures of the War._

"On the 4th inst., your committee received a communication
of that date from the Secretary of War, enclosing the report
of Colonel Hoffman, commissary general of prisoners, dated
May 3, calling the attention of the committee to the
condition of returned Union prisoners, with the request that
the committee would immediately proceed to Annapolis and
examine with their own eyes the condition of those who have
been returned from rebel captivity. The committee resolved
that they would comply with the request of the Secretary of
War on the first opportunity. The 5th of May was devoted by
the committee to concluding their labors upon the
investigation of the Fort Pillow massacre. On the 6th of
May, however, the committee proceeded to Annapolis and
Baltimore, and examined the condition of our returned
soldiers, and took the testimony of several of them,
together with the testimony of surgeons and other persons in
attendance upon the hospitals. That testimony, with the
communication of the Secretary of War, and the report of
Colonel Hoffman, is herewith transmitted.

"The evidence proves, beyond all manner of doubt, a
determination on the part of the rebel authorities,
deliberately and persistently practiced for a long time
past, to subject those of our soldiers who have been so
unfortunate as to fall in their hands to a system of
treatment which has resulted in reducing many of those who
have survived and been permitted to return to us in a
condition, both physically and mentally, which no language
we can use can adequately describe. Though nearly all the
patients now in the Naval Academy hospital at Annapolis, and
in the West hospital, in Baltimore, have been under the
kindest and most intelligent treatment for about three weeks
past, and many of them for a greater length of time, still