The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-05-10

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est, and were gazed upon as if we were
a couple of savages. The people would
come in there and say all sorts of things
to us and about us, until was obliged
to tell them | was prisoner, and had
nothing to say. On our way to Rich
mond, when we reached GordonsviIle,
many women crowded around The cars,
and asked 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 it known to the author
lies. General Johnson took my wife's
carriage and horses at Manassas, kept
them and has them yet for aught know.
When l got to Richmond, l spoke to
several gentlemen about this, and SO
did Mrs. Ricketts,. They said, of course
the carriage and horses should be
returned but they never werc.-
"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 en- .ering upon active service at
once"
Revolving as these disclosures arc, it
was when the commit tee came to examine
witnesses in reference to the treatment
of our heroic dead that the Gcndish
spirit of the rebel leaders was most
prominently exhibited. Daniel Bixby,
DR., of Washington, testifes that he
went out in company with G.. A. Smart,
of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who went
to search for the body of his brother,
who fell at Blackburn's Ford in the
of the 18th of July. They found the
grave. The clothes were Unidentified as
those of his brother on account of some
popularity 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
compare them.
"We found no 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 eft, 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 bones as relies
They could not wait for them to decay.
She said that she had seen drumsticks
made of Yankee shinboncs," as they
called them. Mrs. Butler also stated
that she had seen skull that one of the
New Orleans artillery had, which, he
SAID, he was going to send home and
have mounted, and that he intended to
drink brandy punch out of it the day
he was married.
Frederick Scho!es of the ely of
Brooklyn, New York, testified that he
proceeded to the battle field of Bull
Run on the fourth of this month (ApriD
to fiud the place where he supposed his
brothers body was buried Mr.. Scholcs,
who is man of unquestioncd character,
by his testimony fully confirms the state
ments of other witnesses. He met free
negro, named Simon or Sinons, who
stated that 1t was common thing for
the soldiers to exhibit the bones of the
Yankees. 81 found" he says, "in the
bushes in the neighborhood, part of a
Zouave uniform, with the sleeve sticking
out OF the grave, and portion of the
pontaloons. Attempting to pull it up, |
saw the two ends of the grave were still
unopened, but the middle had been prsed
up, pulling up the extremities of the
uniform, at some places, the sleeves of
the shirt in another, and portion of the
pantaloons. DR.. Swain Zone of the sur
geons, whose testimony has already been
referred toy pointed out the trenches
where the Secessiensts had buried their
own dead, and, on examina ion, it
appeared that their remains had not
been disturbed at all Mr.. Scboes 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, aud 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 disinterred
them to get their bones. He said they
had taken rails and pushed the ends
down in the centre under the middle of
the bodies, and prscd them up.
Mr.. Lewis was afraid that pestilence
would break out in consequence of the
dead being left unburied, and stated
that he had gone and warned the neigh
borhood and had the dead buried, send
ing his own men to assist in doing so.-
"On Sunday morning, l 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 in any way. In one end of the trench,
we found, not more than two or three
inches below the surface, the thighbone
of man which had evidently been dug
up after the burial. At the other end
of the trench, we found the shihbone of
man, which had been struck by a mus
ket ball and split The bodies at the
ends had been pricd up.
While digging there, party of sol.
diers came along and showed US part
of shinbonc, five OF six inches long,
which had the end sawed off. They