"The poor negroes were terribly victimized by their brutal assailants, many of them . . . being left in a condition little short of death. Regiments, successive relays (emphasis by Simms), subjected scores of these poor women to the torture of their embraces, and � but we dare not farther pursue the subject � it is one of such loathing and horror."
Is this a documented quote or the author's suppositions?
