The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-05-28
scenes In williamsburg uor.
rible Barbarity Of the Rebel Surgeons
The SuHerings of the Rebel Wounded -
Works About Williamsburg How the
Sccesh Talk Famine.

rlble BarDarlty OF the Rebel Surgeons
The Su1erings of the Rebel Wounded d-
Works About Williamsburg &C., How the
SeCesh Talk - Famine.
Mr.. RAYMOND writes to the New York
| Times from Williamsburg:
On Tuesday morning flag of truce came
in, covering DR.. Cullen. the Medical Direc-
tor of Longsrccts Division of Southern
troops who brought with him ilten South
ern Surgeons to attend to their wounded
DR.. Cullen started out at once to get passes
for his Surgeons, but did not return for
some hours meantime the Surgeons stroll
ing about town without passes, and being
unable to substantiate their own account of
| themselves, they all found themselves. be-
fore noon, III the guard-house, from which
their head officers lacked either the address
or disposition to get them released until
the next day. Nor did they appear, even
when thoy did get to work, to enter upon
it with any heart or zeal. | dropped into
the large church during the day, which was
nearly filed with rebel wounded, upon
whom several of our Surgeons were in con-
stant and active attendance.
Three Of the rebel surgeons were sitting
all the time in the gallery, holding an ami
mated but very leisurely conversation, aud
paying not the slightest attention TO the
business which was supposed to have
brought them there. One Of the Mssissip-
pi men, with whom talked, spoke in the
highest terms of the kindness he had ex-
perienced at the hands of the Union sur
gcons, and said it was very different from
waat they had been taught to expect. |
asked him if any Of their own surgeons had
been to sec him. He said one had walked
in the day before and looked at him, but
hal IL iN,.l ind l,o
! they were only looking for Southern olli-
GERS. OF the men they took very little no
tice, leaving them to the care of the North
ern surgeons, who made, was glad to SOC,
no such distinction. Wherever went and
talked with rebel wounded, heard only
ono opinion expressed ON this subject.
They all spoke in the most emphatic and
uncquivocal praise of the conduct of all
Our men, soldiers and surgeons, toward
them, dwelling particularly upon the fact
that they had been taught to expect very
different treatment at cur hands
| But they were all very sadly neglected
| for a long time after the battle. Dr.. +. II.
Getohell, Assistant Surgeon of the Third
Maine Regiment, told me that when he
went into the small Baptist Church, in pass
ing on Tuesday morning, he found eight
rebel soldiers who had died of their wounds.
The next morning he called again and found
their dead bodies still lying there unburicd
and undsturbed. Very many of the wound
ed had been placed i'll, or had crawled into
cellars, barns and outhouses, and were not
discovered for day or two. There they
lay for twelve, twenty-four and some of
| them thirty-six hours, without a morsel to
eat or "a swallow of water to drink Dr.
Getchell mentioned the case of the Captain
| IF N.yGS Low
the field where he fell in the woods, from
Monday until Thursday morning, with a
severe wound through the body, and with
out anything to eat or drink during all that
| time. He was then found and brought in,
and DR.. Getchell said that in very few
hours he hogan TO revive, and was then do
ing well. Scores and hundreds were thus
left long time on the field undiscovered,
and of course unCared for.
As general thing, the wounds inflicted
upon the Southern troops were much more
severe than those sustained by our men.
This was owing, probably, to the fact that
our side used Mimic bullets mainly, which
inhict much more terribo wounds than the
round balls fired by the Southern troops.
Nearly all the wounded with whom
conversed in hospital seemed to regret their
connection with the war, and many did not
hesitate to say they could have borne their
wounds better if received in Il better cause.
Several from Mississippi said they had
been served right for coming so far to fight
their own brethren and others, from Mary
land and Western Virginia, expressed the
greatest possible contempt and indignation
toward the South Carolina troops, whose
habit it was, they said, to do all the brag-
gmg and shirk all the fighting. In not a
single instance, they said, had South Car
olina regiment ever borne the brunt of a
battle they always took good care. to get
. some other regiment in advance OF them.
, These men said they were tired of lighting
the battles of such STATE. The war had
, ruined Virginia, and they had had quite
enough of it.
The citizens of Williamsburg are intense
! and open in their proclamation of Seces-
: sionsm The place is a famous nest of de-
cayed descendants of the First Families,
whose main patrmony is pride, and whose
leading passion is hatred of any man among
them who rises by his own merit and in
} dustry. This they consider vulgar, Yam.
kee habit, and they make war upon it with