Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-05-23


putated twice, and was then, | think, moved
to Richmond before the taps were healed /
Prescott died under this treatment. heard (
rebel doctor on the steps below my room /
say, "that he wished he could take out the |
hearts Of the Id Yankees as easily as
he could take off their legs" Some of the
southern gentlemen treated me very hand |
somely. Wade Hampton, who was opposed
TO my battery, came TO see me and behaved
like generous enemy.
1t appears, as part of the history Of
this rebellion, that General Ricketts, was
visited by his wife, who, having first heard
that he was killed in battle, afterward that
he was alive but wounded, travelled under
great difficulties to Manassas, TO see her
: husband. He says; aShe had almost to
fight her way through, but succeeded final
ly in reaching me on the fourth day after
} the battle. There were eight persons in
: the Lewis House at Manassas, ia the room
J where lay, and my wife for two weeks
SiCtk III tifst tpOii Oii uoOi Ny sfuS
J without bed. When we got to Richmond
2 there were six of US in room, among them
/, Col. Wilcox, who remained with us until he
g was taken TO Charleston. There we were
all in one room. There was no door 1t it.
1t was as much as it would be here if you
e should take off the doors of this committee
: room and then fli the passage with wound
e ed soldiers. In the hot summer months the
d stencil from their wounds, and from the
a utensils they used, was fearful. There was
a no privacy at all, because there being no
: door the room could not be closed. We
!, were there as a common show. Col.
e Wilcox and myself were objects of interest,
i and were gazed upon as if we were a couple
k Of savages. The people would come in
: there and say all sorts Of things to US ana
5 that | was prisoner and had nothing to
say. On the way TO Richmond, when we
reached Gordonsvile many women crowd
S ed around the cars, and asked my wife it
n she cooked? if she washed2 hew she got
z, there? Finally Mrs. Ricketts, appealed to
i the officer in charge, and told him that it
l. was not the intention that we should be
y subjected to such treatment, and il it was
a continued she would make il known 10 the
K authorities. Gen. johnson took my wife's
ct carriage and horses at Manassas, kept them,
e, and has them yet for aught l know. When
IS got 10 Richmond | spoke TO several gem
a. ilemen about this, and so did Mrs. Ricketts,.
e They said, of course, the carriage and her-
of ses should be returned, but they never were.
e "There is one debt" says this gallant sol
y der, ''hat desire very much TO pay, and
At nothing troubles me SO much now as the
st fact that my wounds prevent me from en-
as tering upon active service at once"
III PRIVATE or THE NEW YORK FOUR
le TENTH.
~ The case of Louis Francis, who was ter.
: ribIy wounded and maltreated and lost a
- leg, is referred to by General Ricketts, bu
= the testimony Of Francis himself is start
y ling. He was private in the New York
- Fourteenth Regiment. He says: 81 wa:
. attacked by two rebel soldiers, and wound
II ed in the right knee with the bayonet. As
:" lay on the sod they kept bayonetting me
is until | received fourteen wounds. One theT
= left me, the other remaining over me, wher
ie a Union soldier coming up, shot him in the
~ breast, and he fell dead. / layed on the
- ground until 10 O'Clock next day. | wa:
~ then removed in wagon to a building my
wounds examined and partially dressed
- On the Saturday folio wing we were carried
to Manassas, and from there to the genera
- hospital at Richmond; my leg having par
10 be amputated, which operation was perform
~ ed by young man. insisted that the,
should allow DR.. Swain to be present, fo
wanted one Union man there if diet
~ under the operation, The stitches and th,
= band slipped from neglect, and the bon'
protruded. and about two weeks after an
other operation was performed, at whicl
/" time another piece of the thigh bone was
u !, sawed oil. Six weeks after the amputation
:" and before it healed, was removed 10 til,
tobacco factory
= Two operations were subsequently, per
= formed on Franeis-one at Fortress Mon
= roe, and one at Brooklyn, New York--aftei
: his release from captivity.
~ REVOLVING DISCLOSURES.
le Revolving as these disclosures are, it wa.
Of when the committee came to examine wit.
of nesses in reference to the treatment of cur
ID heroic dead, that the fendish spirit Of the
Ct rebel leaders was most promin nily eNhib-
ID tied. Daniel Bixby, Jr, Of Washington,
as testifes that he went out in company with
K Mr.. G. A. Lemont, Of Cambridge, Massa-
IN chusetis, who went to search for the body
IS of his brother, who fell at Blackburn's Ford
se in tile action of the lSih Of July. They