Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1862-05-15

Washington and throughout the country.
After having been wounded in the battle Of
Bull Run, he was captured, and as he lay on
his back helpless, party c. rebels passing
him cried out, "knock out his brains, the
id Yankee" His first Lieutenant, Ram
soy, who was killed, was stripped of every
article Of his clothing hut his socks, and
left naked on the field He testified that
those of our wounded who died in Richmond
were buried in the negro burying ground a.
mong the negroes, and were put into the
earth in the most upfeeling manner.
| While i'll prison, he suhsisted mainly upon
what he purchased with his own money
1--WE had," he says, "what they called bacon
soup---soup made of boiled bacon, the bacon
being rancid--which you could not possibly
eat; and that for man whose system was
being drained by wound is no diet at ALL"
! The case of Louis Francis, who was terri
bly, wounded and matroatcd, and lost leg,
is referred to by Con. Ricketts, but the tes-
timony Of Fraucis himself is startling. lie
was a private in the New York l4th Regi-
ment. He says :-"I was attacked by two
Rebel soldiers, and wounded In the right
knee with the bayonet. As lay on the sod
they kept bayoneting mo until | received
fourteen wounds One then left mo, the
other remaining over me- when Union SOL
dicr coming up shot him in the breast, aud
he fell dead. | lay Oh the ground until ten
o'clock the next day. was then removed
in wagon to building my wounds ex-
amincd and partially dressed. On the Sat-
urday following we were carried to Manas-
sas and from there to the general hospital NJ
Richmond. My log having partially mort-
fed consented that it should be amputat-
cd, which operation was performed by q
young man. insisted that they shorld
allow Or. Swain to be present, for wanted
ono Union man there if died under the
operation. The stitches and the bands slip
ped from neglect and the hone protruded,
and about two weeks after another operation
was performed, nt which time another piece
of the thigh bone was sawed off Six weeks
after the nmputation, and before it healed, !
was romovcd to the tobacco factory"
Two operations were subsequently per.
formed on Francis-onc at Fortress Monro,
and one at Brooklyn, n; York--aiter biz
release from captivity.
Daniel Byby, Jr., Of Washington, tc>ti
fac hat l,f ,uiI w
G. \, Smart, Of Cambridge Mass, who wen
10 search for the body of his brother, whc
fell at Blackburn's Ford in The action o
the 18th Of July, They found the grave
Tho clothes were Identified as those of hi!
brother, for they had been made by lis moth
or; and, in order to identity them. othc
clothes made by her were taken that they
might compare them. "We found no hcat
= in the grave, and no bones of any kind--no
: thing but the clothes and portions Of th,
| flesh. We found the remains Of three othe
t bodies all together The clothes were there
somo flesh was left, but no boncs.' Th,
. witness also states that Mrs. Pierce Butler
who lives near the place said tina! she hat
, seen the rebels boiling portions Of the bodic
| Of cur dead in order TO obtain their bones a
{ relics they could rot wait for them to de
cay. She said that she had seen drumstick
!; made e Yankee shinbcnes," as they called
r them. Mrs. Butler also stated that she hae
seen skull that one Of the New Orlear
artl,crists had, which, he said, he was going
to send home and have mounted, and tha
he intended to drink brandy punch out o
it the day he was married.
; Frederick Scholcs, of Baltimore, tcstifes
that he proceeded to the battle field of Bul
Run. on the 4th Of last month to find the
place where ho supposed his brothers body
was buried. Mr. Scholes met man named
Hampton who resided near the place, who
said the rebels exhumed the dead for the
| purpose, at first, OF obtaining the buttons Of
their uniforms, and afterwards to get their
, bones. He said that hundreds of the bodies
, had been stripped naked on the field before
, they wcro buried.
"On Sunday morning went out in search
of my brothers grave. We found the
trench, and the bodies were eighteen inches
to two feet below the surface, and had been
hustled in any way. While digging there,
party of soldiers came along and showed
us part of a shln-bone, five or six inches in
length, which had the end sawed off. They
said they had found it among many other
pieces in one of the cabins the rebels had
deserted From tho appearance Of it, pieces
had been sawed off to mako finger-rings.
Mr. Lewis, a gentleman of respectability,
who lives in the noishborhood told mo that
the rebels bad rings made Of the bones of
our dead. and that they had them for sale
in their cams Tho soldiers represented
that there were lots Of these bones scattered
through the rebel huts, sawed into rings, &c.
Mr.. Lewis and his negroes all spoke of Col.
James Car,eron's body. and knew that at
had been stripped"
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