The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-05-30

lux OtCI ulCs WuCu SutOu cUlOlCI COUllU,
up, shot him in the breast and he fell dead
l lay on the ground until ten o'clock mex
day. was then removed in wagon to
building; my wounds were examined an,
partially dressed. On the Saturday follow
ing We we're carried to Manassas, and from
there to the general hospital at Richmond
My leg having partially mortified l consented
that it should be amputated, which operation
was performed by young man. l insisted
that they should allow DR. Swain to be pres
ent, for wanted one Union man there if
died under the operation. The stitches ant
the band slipped from neglect, and the bon.
protruded; and about two weeks after anoth
er operation was performed, at which time
another piece of the thigh bone was sawed off
Six weeks after the amputation, and before il
healed, vas removed to the tobacco facto
ry.'
Two operations were subsequently perform
ed on Francis-one at Fortress Monroe. and
one at Brooklyn, New York-after his re
lease from captivity.
REVOLVING DISCLOSURES.
Revolving as these disclosures are, it wal
when the committee came to examine wit.
nesses in reference to the treatment of GU,
heroic dead, that the fendish spirit of the
rebel leaders was most prominently exhibited
Daniel Bixby, jr., of Washington, testi6es
that he went out in company with Mr. G. A.
Lemont, of Cambridge, Massachusetts,, who
went to search for the body of his brother
who fell at Blackburn's 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 peculiarly in the
make, for they had been made by his mother
and, in order to identify them, other clothes
made by her we're taken, that they might
compare them. 1--WE found no head in the
grave, and no bones of any kind-nothins
but the clothes and portions of the flesh.-
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 re-
bels boiling portions of the bodies of our
dead III order to obtain their bones as relics.
They could not wait for them to decay. She
said that she had seen drumsticks made of
Yankee shinbones," as they called them.-
Mrs Butler also stated that she had seen a
skull that one of the New Orleans artillery
had, which, he said, he was going to send
home and have mounted, and that he intend
ed to drink brandy punch out of it the day
he was married.
Frederick Scholes. of the city of BROOKLYN,
\. y. testified that he proceeded to the bat
tle-field of Bull Run on the fourth of this
month (April) to find the place where ne
supposed his brothers body was buried. Mr.
Scholes. who is a man of unquestionable
character, by his testimony fully confirms the
statement of other witnesses. He met free
negro, named Simon, who stated that it was
common thing for the rebel soldiers to ex-
hibit the bones of the Yankees. 81 found"
he says. sin the bushes in the neighborhood
part Of Zouave uniform, with the sleeves
sticking out of the grave, and a portion of
the pantaloons. Attempting to pull If up.
saw the two ends of the grave we're still un-
opened, but the middle had been pried up,
pulling up the extremities of the uniform at
some places, the sleeves Of the shirt in anoth-
er, and portion of the pantaloons. DIR
Swain tone of the surgeons, whose testimony
has already been referred to- pointed out the
trenches where the secessionists had buried
their own dead, and, on examination. it ap-
peared that these remains had not been dis
turbed at all. Mr. Scholes met a free negro.
named Hampton, who resided near the place,
and when he told him the manner in which
these bodies had been dug up, he said he
knew it had been done, and added that the
rebels had commenced digging bodies two or
three days after they were buried, for the
purpose, at first, of obtaining the buttons off
their uniforms. and that afterwards they dis
inferred them to get their bones. He said
they had taken rails and pushed the ends
down in the center under the middle of their
bodies, and pried them up. The information
of the negOes of Benjamin Franklin Lewis
corroborated fully the statement of this man
Hampton. They said that coed many of
the bodies had been stripped naked. | went
to Mr. Lewis's house and spoke to him of the
manner in which these bodies had been dis
inferred. He admitted that it was Infamous
and condemned principally the Louisiana Ii
gers, of General Wheat's division. He ad-
mitted that our troops had been badly treat
ed" In confirmation of the testimony of DIR
Swain and DIR Homiston, this witness AYERS
that MIR Lewis mentioned number Of in
stances of men who had been murdered
by bad surgical treatment. Mr. Lewis was
afraid that pestilence would break out in
consequence of the dead being lett unburied,
sending his own men to assist in doing it,
son Sunday morning yesterday ! went out
in search of my brothers grave. We found
the trench, and dug for the bodies below
They were eighteen inches to two feet below
the surface, and had been hustled in any way.
In one end of the trench We found, not more
than two or three inches below the surface,
the thigh bone of man, which had evident
ly been dug up after the burial. At the 9TH
er end of the trench We found the shin bone
of man, which had been struck by q
musket bali and split. The bodies at the
end had been pried up. While digging
there, party of soldiers came along and
showed US part of shin-bone, FIVE or SIX
inches long, which had the end sawed off
They said that they had found it among
many other pieces i'll one of the cabins the
rebel. had deserted. From the appearance
OF it, pieces had been sawed off to make fin.
ger rings. AS soon as the negroes noticed
this, they said that the rebels had had rings
made of the bones of our dead, and that they
had been for sale in their camps. When ID,
Swain saw the bone he said it was part OF
the shinbone Of man. The soldiers repre-.
sented that there were lots of these bones
scattered through the rebel huts sawed into
rings" &c. Mr. Lewis and his negroes all
spoke of Colonel James Cameron's body, and
knew that SIT had been stripped. and also
where it had been buried" Mr. Scholes in
answer to question OF one of the committee
described the different treatment extended to
the Union soldiers and the rebel dead. The
latter had little head-boards placed at the