The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-01
TTnIR TnHATMENr.

l. THEIR THEATAfENT.
Immediately after their capture at Shi.
lob, the rebels commenced robbing thl
Federal officers Of their swords. and die
not suspend their efforts until they had
/ gotten possession of all that had not beer
broken. The Federal officers protested
against this as contrary TO the usage:
of civilized warfare, but without avail.
An officer Of The Twelfth Iowa was in
formed by rebel Colonel that he might
keep his sword. Soon after another reb-
ell officer came along and demanded it.
and, upon il being refused, he seized a
musket and with the butt knocked the
Federal officer down, and then took bis
sword. The officer soon after recovered
his senses, but had received an ugly
wound, from which he did not recover in
three months.
All the Federal side arms were given
up with the express promise, on the part
Of the rebel officers, that they should be
returned, which of course never happen
ed. Watches, knives, rings, everything
followed their side arms protest or re-
sistance was useless. A demand for
anything not instantly complied with,
would be enforced by a blow from the
butt Of pistol.
From first to last the rations of the
national prisoners were meagre in guam
tity and miserable in quality,-many
times even loathsome. When complaints
were made against such treatment, the
invariable reply was that it was the best
they could do; their own soldiers had
no better it was all owing to our block
ade, &c. In the same breath, however,
they would declare that their armies
were well fed, and their resources for
carrying on the war abundant While
at Montgomery the prisoners would have
suffered from starvation had they not
made clay pipes, bone rings, and other
trifles, which they exchanged for food.
In eating they were fed on wooden
plates, with wooden forks and spoons,
in cases where prisoners did not have
money to purchase better articles.
While at Montgomery our men were
housed in open Gotten sheds, with no
floor to lie on, and without blankets.
Many of the deaths may be directly
traced to this exposure in Yermin-haunf-
ed sheds. Of the Shiloh prisoners over
100 privates and Is commissioned OFF,
GERS died during their confinement, and.
as the southern press refused to publish |
the names of those who died, the fate of |
many will never be known by their
friends in the North.
at Tuscaloosa our prisoners were sub |
ected TO the most brutal treatment ina
ENABLE, The first day of their arrival
here one of our men, while sitting in a
was shot through the head bv
he guard, and fell into the street corpse.
Japt. Lawler, of the Eighteenth Illinois,
vas placed in close confinement heavily
rOned, for two weeks, upon bread and
water, for simply answering a question
addressed TO him by one Of his own men.
The guards were then ordered 20 shoot
Town without warning any officer who
night beseen taking to The federal private,
nd the sentinels actually went about
With their gnns cooked, ready TO shoot
ny yankee" whose head might be
cen at a window. The prisoners at this
lace were under charge Of bloody
hirsty scoundrel named Henry Writ, ,
ierman, who seemedtO take especial de-
Ight in acts of brutality. When the ,
tuscaloosa men were removed from his
barge TO Montgomery, some were so
early starved that, on the boat, thew ,
ought and scrambled 10 get possession !
t the dirty remnants from the cabin Ia !
lie as they were thrown upon the deck :
Glow. On the passage one poor wretch. :
Tho was too weak to clutch bis share, /
bsolutely died from starvation. Two =
Their poor devils, who were crawling :
long on all fours to get their share, be-
lg too weak TO stand, were bayoneted Off
ne boat. Another in the same condi-
on was bayOncted in the head, then
nocked into the hold, and lay az the \
ONT of death for three months from his 4
'Ounds.
Those whose constitutions wore un- 4
quail to the task fell sick, and generally 4
led from sheer neglect. Murder was a 4
use of frequent occurrence While at n
the prisoners were permit q
ID 10 get milk of woman who lived in I
house about thirty feet aslant from the =
.ison, The prisoners would take their q
lnteens, pass in single Gle TO the win. +,
Dw of the house, leave them, and the :,
'xt morning, in the same order, proceed a
the window and receive the cantecns
He'd with milk. 6
One day Lieutenant Bliss, of the Sc 4
md Missouri Battery, was a little late !.
join the procession, but short time =
Ter he went TO Inc window and asked q
le woman for the milk, =
Come away from there, you Yankee i,
= ofab--w said the sentinel, bring .
& his gun TO his shoulder y
In one moment" replied the Lieuien- 4
II, as he reached in. took his canteen. "
nd turned TOWARDS the prison. Some d
ling in the sentry's eye caught his at (,
niiOn. o.
" My God! you dom mean to murder d
c p" said he, but he had scarcely uttered p
&c words when he fell TO the earth, shot o
trough the heart IS
Another murder in Macon took place 81
} the 2d Of July A prisoner stood