After describing conditions at the Florence camp, a South Carolina woman told the governor: “If such things are allowed to continue they will most surely draw down some awful judgment upon our country. . . . Don’t think that I have any liking for the Yankee; I have none. . . . But I have not yet become quite brute enough to know of such suffering without trying to do something, even for a Yankee.” A young Georgia woman expressed similar sentiments after a visit to Andersonville. “I am afraid God will suffer some terrible retribution to fall upon us for letting such things happen. If the
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