The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-08-05
Approved, July II, 1862.
From our Army before Richmond

From our Army before Richmond.
A correspondent of an Eastern paper
writes as follows from Gen, McCLELLAN's
army:
sUFFERINGs OF PRISONERS AT RICHMOND.
There is no mistake whatever about the
telegram announcing that Gen. Dix has
made an arrangement with the Rebels for
an immediate and general exchange Of
prisoners, as learnt it from the lips Of
Gen Dix himself with permission to give
it publicity. That the arrangement is
being faithfully carried out is best proved
by the vessels constantly arriving here,
and bringing large frcights Of our gal
liant fellows from the clutches of the en-
envy.
And indeed il was time TO enter into
some arrangement for their release from
Richmond. The scenes to be witnessed
on board Of one of these transports, fill
ed with men from the pestilcntial dun
geoas of that city, and the tales of suffer
ing to be heard from those who have
undergone them, are enough to make one
shudder 1t would not be fair TO lay the
suilenngs of our men entirely TO the vim
dictive and cruel spirit Of the Rebels, but
partly from that cause, and partly from
the paucity among them of medicines,
stores and medical knowledge-there can
be no doubt that our poor soldiers among
them undergo the terrors of purgatory.
This is not stated only on the asscr
ton of the various sick and wounded
l Il
our transports, but on the authority of
Dr. Burgess, Of the S. r. Spaulding, who,
by the way, deserves honorable mention
for the kindness and uuremitting nticn-
tiOns which all the helpness receive who
are fortunate enoughto fall into his hands
| DR.. Burgess asserts that the wounded
soldiers who were given over TO him at
City Point were most Of them covered
over with lice, and their neglected wounds
were in so dreadful a state that many of
| them had maggOts enough 10 I'LL wine
/ glass His description was perfectly hor-
| rifying of the mode in which the poor
/ fellows were sent 20 him. Men packed
] together in open freight cars-many so
| weak as to be unable TO turn themselves
with their wounds pulrefying and
] IOEEltu hAbAb NiAo NhNAy AbhAi WIN AlflA
! upturned faces to the burning sun, with
out a cheap awning to save them from
its intolcrable rays. In spite Of their
weakness aud exhaustion he says il was
pitiful, but grand TO see the eagcrness with
! which they welcomed the boat that came
TO their relief Men without legs and
arms, mutilated in every conceivable
shape-mauy wasted away TO mere slele-
tons by disease-found strength enough
10 hobble in such numbers 10 the friendly
deck that guards were autually necessa-
ry TO restrain their impetuOsity, so eager
were the heart brokon boys 10 find them
selves once more under that glorious old
flag for which they have bled and suffer,
ed-but, let us hope, not ia vain
Many on the Spaulding told me thai
their food wasnot only poor but insult.
cient; that they were shut up in close
ill-yentlated rooms, from which the
were not permitted 10 stir, and thai
after taking all the good bandage
they could find for their own men
they pretended 10 dress the wounds o
ours with the same old bandages they