The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-05-23
The Atrocious Barbarity OF the Rebels
Report Of the Committee.


The N .rional Investigating Com
mittee upon the conduct of the war
has made report to Congress upon
the reports Of the inhuman barbaritv
ofthe rebels towards the sick, wound
ed and prisoners. who fell into their
hands. This report, with the evi
ience sdduced in support Of 1t, fully
establishes the truth Of the reports
which have bscn made OF such bar
barity. and, il possible, adds to the
enormi,y OF the rebels crimes against
humanity. Nathaniel +. Parker
captured at Falling Waters, testified
that many prisoners died from shoer
neg Get. and many were shot by sen
tries. DR.. IIomiston, surgeon OF the
18th New York, was refused pormis.
sion to attend the Younded men. uo
and his fellow prisoners received no
food for twenty four hours at Manas
;as. Water was refused to the sui
tering men, and they were only re.
lieved by catching rain water which
ell from the root. Some were lett
upon the battle field until Tuesday
night and We'd lesday morning -
Gen. James II. Ricketts,, while lying
wounded upon the field OF battle,
heard passing rebels say "Knock out
tho brains OF the ID Yankee" !"
| He allirms that number Of our mon
were shot. He saw many cases OF
unskillful amputation, and heard a
rebel doctor say he wished he could
cut out the hearts Of the ID Yam
KEGS as essily rs ho could take oil
their leys." General Johnson took
away the carriage and horses with
which Gen. Ricketts, wife succeed.
ed in reaching him, and he never re-
tnrned them. Louis Francis was
bayoneted while lying upon his bed.
His leg had been twice smpu,ated.
Daniel Blxby, ir., Of Washington,
says that he heard Mrs. Pierce But
Ter say that sho had seen the rebels
boiling portions Of the bodies OF Il G
dead, to obtain their bones ss relics
, and had seen drumsticks made OF
, Yankees shin bones," as they cal
a them; and that she saw skull thai
one of tho New Orleans artillery
. had, which he said he was going tC
send home TO have mounted, ans
that he intended to drink a brandy
= punch out of it the day ho was mar
ried. Benjamin Franklin L,wis
living in the neighborhoud, saw
: :. many bodies stripped naked befor'
hey were buried. Negroes said tina
;; finger rings were made OF the bone
and that the rebels sold them in thci
a camps. These, and many other simi
lar facts, lead the committee, throug
% Hon. B. +. Wade, Chairman, TO til
. following conclusion:
u "The members OF your Comini,
% tee might content themselves b
: leaving this testimony to the Senat
u and tho people, without a word
:; comment, but when tho enemies {
81 just and generous government al
Al attempting to excite the sympath
22 Of disloyal men in our own countr!
n, to solicit the aid of foreign Cover
Of ments by the grosscst msrepresent'
:. tions oil the objects OF the war an
nd of the conduct OF the officers and SO
diers Of the Republic, this, the mo
in startling evidence Of their insnce'
ty and inhumanity, deserves eou
Of notice at our hands.
IN. "Hissory will be examined ir va
,,y for q Government, long prepared {
by ambitious men, who were MAJ
Ia. doubly snro Of success by tho a
n. and counsel Of former Adminlstr
tions, and by tho belief that tbs
III, plans were unobserved by . ma
his Unanimous people. They precipi'
At, ted the war at a moment when I
General Government had just DO