, 1862-05-05

bis wife, who, having first heard that he was
killed In battle atterward that he was alive
3nd 5aEeed Under reaa
sshe had almost to fight her way through,
but succeeded finally in reaching me on the
fourth day after the battle. There we're
eight persons In the Lewis House. at Ma
ny wife, for two weeks, slept in that room On
the floor By my side, without bed. When
re got to Richmond, there were SIX Of Us in
room, among them Col. Wilcox, Who re-
nained with US until he mas taken to Charles
ton. There we we're all in one room. There
was no door to it. It vas much as it would
be here If you should take Of the doors OF
this committee room, and then I'LL the pas
sage with wounded soldiers. In the hot sum
mer months the stencil from their wounds,
and tom the utensils they used Was fearful.
There was no privacy at all, because there
being no door The room conld not be closed. |
We we're there as common show. Colonel
Wilcox and myself we're objects Of interest,
Of saEagea. The people would come in there
and say all sorts Of things to Is and about Us,
until Was obliged to tell them that I was q
prisoner and had nothing to say. On our way
to Richmond, when we reached Gordonsrille,
many women crowded around the cars and
at9ed my wife if she cooked? If she washed? |
how she got there? Finally, Mrs. Ricketts,
appealed to the officer in charge, and told him |
that it was not the intention that we should
be subjected to this treatment, and if it was !
continued she would make 1t known to tue /
authorities. Gen. johnson took my wife's |!
carriage sid horses at Manassas, kept them. !
and has them yet for a1ght know. When 1 |
got to Re mo- dRGks to
said, OF course, the carriage and horses should
be returned, but they never H7ere. "Therc is
one debit says this gallant soldier, that
desire Very much to pay, and nothing troubles
me so much ROW as the fact that my wounds
prevent me from entering upon aeti7e service
ut once-''
The case Of Louis Francis, who was terribly
wounded and maltreated, and lost 4 leg, Is re-
ferred to by Gen. Ricketts,, but the testimony
Of Francis himself is startling. He was a prl-
| Vate in the New York l4th regiment He
| says: II vas attacked by two rebel soldiers,
and wounded in the right knee with the bayo-
net. As I lay on the sod they kept bayoneting
me until I received fourteen wounds. One
then lett me, the other remaining over me-,
| when Union soldier coming up, shot him in
| the breast and he fell dead. + lay on the
| ground until ten O'Clock next day- WAS
then removed IN wagon to building; ny
| the Saturday following we we're carried to
| Manassas, and from there to the general hos
pital at Richmond. Ny leg having partially
mortified, l consented that it should be am
putated, which operation was performed by a
young man insisted that they should allow
DR.. Swain to be present, for wanted one
Union man there II died under the opera
! ton The stitches aud the band Slipped from
| neglect, and the bone protruded; and about
two weeks after another operation vas per
formed, at which time another piece Of the
thigh bone was sawed OF. Six weeks after
The amputation, and before it healed, l was
removed to the tobacco factory"
Two operations we're subsequently, per-
| formed on ETancj5-one at Fortress Monroe,
and one at Brooklyn, New York-after bis re.
| lease from CaptiyitY
Revolving is these disclosures are, it was
when the Committee came to examine Wit
| nesses in reference to the treatment Of our he
roic dead, that the deGdieh spirit Of the rebel
Daniel BiSby, jr., Of Washington, tcstities
that he vent out in company with Mr. G. =.
Smart, Of Cambridge, Massachusetts,, who
went 70 search for the body, Of his brother,
the 18th Of July. They found the grave. The
clothes were identified as those Of Ills brother
on account OF some peculiarly in the make,
for they had been made by his mother; and,
in order to identify them, other clothes made
BY her were taken, that they might comp4re
them. I'VE found no head in the grave, and
no bones Of any kind-nothing but the
clothes and portions Of the flesh. We found
the remains Of three other bodies all together.
The clothes we're there; some flesh was left,
but no bones" The witness also states that
Mrs. Pierce Butler, who liyt s near the place,
ssiI that she Lad seen rebels boiling portions
OF tie bodies of our dead In order 10 ebsaln
their toues as relies. They could not wair for
them to decay. She said that she had seen
drumsticls made Of q Yankee shinbones," !" as
+ they called them. Mrs. Butler also stated
that she had seen 3 skull that one OF the New
Orleans artillery had, which, he said, he ras
going TO send home to have it mounted, and
, tbat he intended to drink 4 brandy punch out
Of It the day he was 1l:rlied.
! :. Frederick ScGoles, of the city Of Breokl IN,
, | New York, testified that he proceeded to the
battlefield Of Bull Run on the fourth Of this
| month {AIriD TO 1iud the place where he sup
| posed his brothers body was buried. Mr.
Scholes, who is 4 man ofuuqutstiunri charlc.
| ter, by hls testimony fully couGr1n- tue state
Z | ncnte o! other witnesses He Met s free negro,
named ). mon or Simous, VITO stated that it wis
| a common thug tor the rrbe1 soldiers to ey-
| hibit the bones Of the Yankees. ~ found, -
| he says, sin the bushes in the uei ghburhood,
a part Of Zouavc uniform, with tht. sleeve
| sticking out OF the grave, anu portion Of the
pantaluons: Attempting to pull it up, sa y
The two ends Of tile grave were 81 Iii uuo pened,
but the middle had been pried up, pulling up
the e1tremities Of the uniform al su1ue pl ices,
, the sleeves OF the shirt in another, and a por-
) tion Of the pantaloons Dr.. Swaln Zone oi
r the surgeons, whose Etimcny has alrradY =
J hrtn referred to) Pointed out the trenches
| | where the Eeceesionists had buried their Own
tt2d. and, On examination, it appeared that
: their remains bad not been disturbed at all.
3lr. Schofes met free negro, named Hamp-
: ton, who resided nrar tie t.as:e, aud When he
told him the manntr in which taeso bodies
) had been dug up, he said he knew it had pecn
+ done, ana added that tho rebels had conmen:.
: ed digging bodies, two or three days affel
, they we're buried, for t1e purpose,
f a S ,i uaos ef es''aas aaa bst the aeexp erttSa
; they disinterred them to get their poues
: He raid they had taken rails aud pushed the
eD6B down in the centre under the middle o1
! the bodies, and pried them up: Tie latofma
oF $%nr pA&t I'LL
Lewis corrobor:lted fully tue statement of this
!, man, Hampton. They said that good ma aay
], oI the bodies had been stripped naked OIL tbs
j field before they were buried, and that somt
i we're buried naked. Iwent to 3fr. Lewis house
1 and spoke to him Of the manner ia which
i these bodies had been disinterred- Ht
Q admitted that it was Infamous, and condemned
/, principally tho Louisiana Tigers, Of Genera
s | Nhca''s division. He admitted that ou
T. wounded had been very badly treated" I.
l. confirmation OF the testimony Of Dr.. Swain
1 and Dr. Homiston, this witness ayers that Ar
q t Lewis mentioned a number of instances of mel
i, wlo had been murdered BY susgica1 treatment
+ Mr.. Lewis was afraid that q pcs'iIenco ~oult
. break out in consequence Of the dead beln:
d lift u1buried, and stated that he had gone ant
IL wsrned this reighborhood and hid the dea
buried, sending bis o@n men to assist in doin
r so. "On Sunday morning yesterday wen
i. out In search at my nrnthrrSs grave. We foun
X the trench, and dug for the bodies below
!, the surface, and had been hustled in In an
It way. In one end Of tho TROUGH @n fund, no
:. more than two OF three inches below tha sur
is face, the thigh bone Of 8 man which had evi
10 dentlJ been dug up after the bnral. At til
l. other end Of the trench we found the shiaoon
- ot man, which bad been struck By a mu~ke
10 ball snd split The bodies at the ends ha
4 been psted up. While digging there, part
le OF soleieEs came along and showed us part {
8 sfinoone, i've or six inches long, which :
IS 1he end sawed of. They said that they la
IN found it among many other pieces fu ooe {
y, the cabins thr rebels had deserted From sh
i appearance Of it pieces had been sawed OF t
ID make finger rings. As eoon 81 the negroe
d, noticed tbis, they said that the rebels had h&
Of | rings nade Of the bonus Of our deaf
Is and that they had them for sale
81 their camps. When DR.. S1alm "a
IT the bone he said it was part OF thr sai
d. | hone of uan. The soldiers represented tsis
ct there were lots Of these bones scatrere
Of through the rebel huts sawed Into rings" ds
ne Nlr. Lev il and his negroes all spoke Of Co
q. James Camtrnn's body. sud knew that 'tj
be had been stripped. and also where 1t had bee
j. buried" Mr. Scholes, in answer to que
d, ton Of the committee, described tito diff:frt
z, | treatment extended to the Union soldiers az
Il the rcbel dead. The latter had little hea
ed hoards placed at the head Of their respectis
y gravts and marked; none of thew had Il
re appea1ance of having been disturbed
4. The evidence Of that distinguished aud D
Is tr7otic citizen. Hon. William 8prasue go
H. etnor OF the State Of Rhode Island, confirm
lie and foytiles some OF the most revolving stat
he ments OF former witnesses. His object