The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-05-15

was attacked by two rebel soldiers, and
wounded in the right knee with the bay
onet. As L lay cn the sod they kept
bayonetting me until | received fourteen
wounds. One then left me, the other re-
naming over me, when Union soldier
/ coming up shot him in the breast, and he
| fell dead. l lay on The ground until 10
o'clock next day. l was then removed
in wagon to a building nay wounds
examined and partially dressed.
On the Saturday following we were
carried to Manassas, and from there to the
general hospital at Richmond. My leg
having partially mortified, [ consented
that it should be amputated, which oper-
alton was performed by young man. [
insisted that they should allow DR. Swain
to be present, for | wanted one Union
man there if [ died under the operation
The stitches and the band slipped from
neglect, and the bone protruded /; and
about two weeks after another operation
was performed, at which time another
piece Of the thigh bone was sawed OFF -
Six weeks after the amputation, and be-
fore it healed, was removed to the tobac-
CO factory.
Two operations were subsequently per-
formed on Francis-onc at Fortress Mon
roe and one at Brooklyn, New York
after his release from captivity
Revolving as these disclosures are, it
was when the committee came to examine
witnesses in reference to the treatment of
our heroic dead that the fendish spirit
of the rebel leaders, was prominently
exhibited. Daniel Bixby, Jr., of Wash
ington, testiies that be went out in COM
pany with @. A. Smart, of Cambridge,
Massachusetts,, who went to search for the
body of his brother, who fell at Black
burns Ford in the action of the 18th OF
July. They found the grave. The clothes
were identified as those OF his brother on
account Of some popularity in the make,
for they rad been made by his mother
and in order to identify them, other clothes
made by her were taken, that they might
compare them.
eve found 40 head in the grave, and
no bones Of any kind-nothing but the
clothes and portions of the fesh. We
found the remains of three other bodies
all together. The clothes were there
some flesh was left, but no bones" The
witness also states that Mrs Pierce Butler,
who lives near the place, said that she
had seen the rebels boiling portions OF
the bodies of our dead in order to obtain
their 1oncs as relics. They could not
wait for them to decay. She said she
had seen drumsticks made of Yankee |
as they called them Mrs. |
Butler also stated that she had seen |
skull that one of the rebel ar tillery had, ,
which, he said, he was going to send home |
and have mounted, and that he intended |
% drink brandy punch out of it the day
he was married.
Frederick Scholes, of the city of Brook |
Ign, New York, testified that he proceed |
ed to the battlefield Of Bull Ran on the /
fourth Of this month, (April,) to lind the |
place where he supposed his brothers
body was buried. Sir. Scholes, who is a
man OF uaIuestioned character, by his
testimony fully confirms the statements Of
other witnesses. He met a free negro,
named Simon or Simons, who stated that
it was common thing for the rebel sol
dicrs to exhibit the bones of the Yankees
Il found" he says, .'in the bushes in the
a part of Zouave uniform
with the sleeve sticking out of the grave,
and a portion Of the pantaloons. At
to pull it up, | saw the two ends
OF the grave were still unopened, but the
middle had been prised up, pulling up the
extremities of the uniform at some places,
the sleeves o. the shirt IN another, and a
portion of the pantaloons. DIR. Swain
{ one of the surgeons, whose testimony has
already been referred to) pointed out the
trenches where the Secessionists had bur
led their own dead, and, on examination,
it appeared that their remains had not
been disturbed at all Mr.. Scholes met
free negro, named Hampton, who resided
near the place, and when he told him the
ia which these bodies had been
lug up, he said be knew it had been done,
md added that the rebels had commenced
iigging bodies two or three days after
hey were buried, for the purpose, first,
IF obtaining the buttons of their uniforms,
md that aeterward they disinteTred them
o get their bones. lie said they had Ia
zen rails aud pushed the ends down in
he centre under the middle Of tue bodies, 4
md priscd them up.
"Ihe information Of the negroes of
Benjamin Franklin Lewis corroborated
ully the statement Of this man Hampton
they said that a good many of the bodies
lad been stripped naked on the field be-
ore they were buried, and that some were
,uried naked | went to Mr.. Lewis
louse and spoke to him of the manner in
which these bodies had been disinterred