Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-05-15

room Where I lay. and my wife. for two
weeks. slept in that room on the Aoor by
my side, without Q bed When we got to
Richmond. there were six ofus in q room.
among them COL Wilcox. who remained
with rs until he was taken 10 Charleston.
There we we're all in one room. There
was no door to it. It was much ss it
would be here If you should take off the
doors Of this committee room, and then
GIL the passage with wounded soldiers
In the hot summer months. the stencil
from their wounds, and from the utensils
they used were fearful There was no
privacy at all. because there being no doors
the room could not be closel. We were
there as a common show. Col. Wilcox
and myself were objects Of interest, and
were gazcd upon as if we were couple of
lsavages. The people would come in
there and say all sorts Of things to us and
about us. until was Obliged to iell them
that | was prisoner and had nothing to
say. On our way to Richmond. when
we reached Gordonsville. many women
crowded around the cars. and asked my
wife if she cooked? II she mashed? how
she got there? Fi:ally. Mrs. Ricketts, ap.
lpealed 4, the officer in charge. and told
him that it was not tho intention that we
should be aubjected to this treatment. and
il it was continued she would make il
known to the authorities. Gen. johnson
took my wife's carriage and horses at Ma
nassas. kept them. aud has them yet for
spght know. When got to Richmon
Isspoke 20 several gentlemen about this.
and so did Mrs. Ricketts,. They said oil
course. of course. the carriage and horses
should be returned, but they never were.
There is one debt" says this gallant
soldier. "that desire very much to pay
and nothing troubles me so much now as
the fact that my wounds prevent me from
entering upon active service at once
The case OF Louis Francis. who was ter.
ribly wounded and maltres,ed. and lost q
leg. is referred to by Gen. Ricketts,; but
the testimony Of Francis himself is start.
Ing. He was private in the New York
l4th regiment. He says: IL was attack
ell by two rebel soldiers. and woun led in
the right knee with the bayonet. AS ]
lay on the sod they kept bayonetting me
until received fourteen wounds. One
then left me. the other remaining over me
when Union soldier coming mp, shot him
in the breast and he fell dead. lay on
the ground until ten o'clock next day.
was then removed in a wagon to . build
ling; my wounds examined and partially
dressed. On the Sunday following we
were carried to Manassas. and from there
to the general hospital at Richmond. Ny
leg having partially mortified. consented
that it should be amputsted, which opera
tion was performed by a young man.
insisted that they should allow Dr. Swain
to he present. for wanted one Union man
there if died under the operation. The
stitches and the band slipped from neglect
and the bone protruicd; and about two
weeks after another operation was perform
ell. at which time another piece Of the
thigh bone was sawed off, Six weeks al
ter the amputation. and before it healed
, | was removed to the tobacco factory"
Two operations were subsequently, per
formed on Francis-one at Fortress Mon
roe. and one at Brooklyn. New York
, after his release from captivity.
Revolving as these disclosures arc
, it was when the Committee came to exam
: inc witnesses in reference to the treatment
of our heroic dead. that the finished spirit
OF the rebel leaders was most prominently
; exhibited. Daniel Dixby. jr.. Of Wash.
ington, testiies that he went ont in com
, pany with Mr. G. a. Smart. OF mbridg
Massachusetts,. who went to search for IN,
body Of his brother. who fell at Black
burns Ford in the action Of the 18th o.
, July. They found the grave. The clothes
were identified as those OF his brother o,
account Of some particularly in the make
for they had been made by his mo; her
and in order to identify them. other clothe
, made by her were taken. that they might
compare them. 1--WE found no head il
the grave. and no bones Of any kind
nothing bot the clothes and portions o
: the flesh. We found the remains Of thrc
, other bodies ell together. The clothe
= were there; some flesh was left, but n,
bones" The witness also states that Mrs
v Pierce Butler. who lives near the place
said that she had seen rebels boiling por
Q tions of the bodies Of our dead in order I,
r obtain their bones as relics. They coul,
3 not wait for them to decay. She sal,
that she had seen drumsiicks made o
E yankee shin boues." as they called them
/. Mrs. Butler also stated that she had seen
D skull that one ofthe New Orleans artiller]
' had. which he said. he was going to sent
home to have it mounted. and that he in
J tended to drink brandy punch out OF j;
( the day he was married.
/ Frederick Scholes. Of the city Of Brook
| lyn, New York. testified that he proceeded
to the battlefield Of Bull Run on ;h,
5 fourth Of this Month (April) to find th'
| place where he supposed his brothers bodl
: was buried. Mr.. Scholes. who is maj
| of unqncstionable character. by his testi
, mony fully confirms the statements Of 9th
witnesses. He met Q free negro, name,
a Simon or Simons. who stated that It wa.
: common thing for the rebel soldiers t.
{ exhibit the bones Of the Yankees. :"
g found.' he says. ''in the bushes in tn
neighborhood. a part Of . Zouave uniform
q with the sleeve sticking out of the grave
: and portion Of the pantaloons. Attempt
ing to pull it up. saw the two ends 0
D the grave were still unopened. but the mid
e die had been Prisd up. pulling up the ex
Z tremitics of the uniform at some places