The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-05-15
REPORT OF THE JOINT Committee
on THE CONDUCT or THE WAR.
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The Joint Committee On the CondUc
Of the Present War has made the follow
ing report to the United States Senate
On the first day of April the Senate O.
the United States adopted the following
resolution, which was referred to the Com
mittee on the Conduct of the War
I2eso1ped, That the Select Committee
on the Conduct of the War be directed tt
collect the evidence with regard to tht
barbarous treatment by the rebels at Ma
nassas, Of the remains of officers and sol
diers Of the United States killed in battle
there and that the said select commit
tee also inquire into the fact whether the
Indian savages have been employed by
the rebels, in their military service, against
! the United States Government, and how
such warfare has been conducted By the
said savages.
In pursuance Of the instructions con-
tained in this resolution, your committee
have the honor 10 report that they exam
ined a number OF witnesses, whose testl-
mony is herewith submitted.
bIr. Nathaniel f. Parker, who was cap
tured at Falling Waters, Va, testifes that
be was kept in close confinement, denied
exercise, and, with a number OF others,
huddled up in a room; chat their food.
generally scant, was always bad, and some
times nauseous that the wounded had
neither medical attention nor humane
treatment, and that many Of these latter
died from sheer neglect; that five OF the
prisoners were shot by the sentries out
Side. and that he saw one man, Tibbitts,
OF the New York 9th Regiment, shot as
he was passing his window, on the 9Th Of
November, and that he died of his wound
on the 18th The perpetrator of THIS foul
murder was subsequently promoted by
the rebel Government.
DR.. J NJ Ionisj8n, surgeon Of the
Fourteenth New York or brooklyn regi
1nent, captured at Bull Ran, testifes that
when he solicited permission to remain on
the field and to attend TO wounded men,
some CT whom were 10 helpless aud pain
eul condition, and suffering for water, be
was brutally refused. They offered Linn
neither water nor anything in the shape
of food He and his companions stood in
the streets Of Manassas, surrounded by
threatening aud boisterous crowd, and was
afterwards thrust into an old building,
and left, without sustenance or covering,
to sleep on the bare floor 1t was only
when faint, and without food for twcnty-
four hours, that some cold bacon was
grudgingIy given them. When. at last,
they were permitted TO 60 to the relief Of
IL II, l
not allow them to perform operations, but
entrusted the wounded to his young as
"some of them with no more
knowledge of what they attempted to do
than an apothecarys clerk" And fur
Tier, "that these inexperienced surgeons
performed operations upon our men in a
most horrible manner; some of them were
absolutely frightful." 'W hen," he adds,
II asked DR. Darby to allow me to ampu-
tate the leg Of Corporal Prescott, Of our
regiment, aud said that the man must die
if It we're not done, he said that | should
be allowed to do it." While Dr.. HON
iston was waiting. he says Secessionist
came through the room and said, "They
are operating upon one Of the Yankees
leos up stairs" ~ went up and found
lEal lEtT Bdu cut Oh itSNOtt = itC
assistants were pulling on the flesh at
each side, trying to get flap enough to
cover the bone. They had sawed off the
bone without leaving any Of the flesh to
form the flaps to cover 1t; and with all
the force they could use they scould not
get flap enough to cover the bone. They
were then obliged to saw off about one
inch more of. the bone, and even then, +
when they came to put in the sutures (the /
stitchcs) they could not approximate the
edges within less than an inch and a I
half OF each other; of course, as soon as
there was any swelling, the stitches tore
put and the bone stuck through again =
Dr. Swain tried afterwards to remedy it |
3y performing another operation, but
Prescott had become so debilitated that
le could not survive" Corporal Pres
.ott was young man of high position,
nd had received very liberal educa-
ion
The same witness describes the suffer
ngs of the wounded after the battle as
horrible with bad'food,
o covering, no water They were lying
pom the floor as thickly as they could be
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