The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1862-04-10
The yankee prisoners.

A There are now confined in the guard
,iousc III this city three Federal prisoners
-<two are Germans, who we're captured On
Sunday near Wilmington Island, and the
other. Jerseyu1an, was taken near Fe.
nandina. The one from New Jersey re
ports himself as native OF that State. ana
that he was drafted with the 97th New
York Regiment He says that that repi-
ment are nearly all Germans. MANY of
whoni have been in this couutry but a few
months lie is very illiteratc, .aud can
neither read nor write. lie Informed us
tha, he was tired OF the war, rs were mlnN
u the regiment TO which he belonged
! hat oil had been deceived, that their off.
GERS treated them harshly; that the foo.
served out 70 the men was poor and uhff
&C. CT, ini hat he eaibr.eed tho frs, On.
por,unity 10 make his escspe.- fIc anpeaT
ed TO be gratited with his present quarter
and was viking TO eulist ia the Conieder.
lie army and fgh, on the side OF the Soath
lie say that necessity compelled most OF
las regiment 20 enlist for the war.
Ihe two Germans belong 10 the 4e,h
New York Regiment Onesg sg,vcs his ann,
ns i.enc Ack, and has been inthis countr,
about two years The other who cali,
himself Frederick Schmakis. is = Prussian.
and says he has be u this country slo,u
seven years; that he has wife aad two
childrcn IN baltimore. lie Is glati6ed
that he was captured, and hopes he vii
soon see his family, as hc knows they are
destitute. lie Is tired oi the war, anc
would not enlist again. he ran speak but
l few words Of English
The other. Ack, can speak but Iit,le
Eng ish. He says lhat nearly all of the
10th New York Regiment enlisted because
they had no employWent in the North
They were promised thirteen dollars p,r
! month. and one hundred dollars when TIE
war was over. but up to tins time bal re.
c-.ved Lut lnsie pay. The 6rst month
they were pa'd oifin gold. and The max,
two months they received United States
paper i~sued hy the t,overnmont He ex
| hibiied to US some of this pape, currency
Ga the lett hand side OF th bills is an
engraved likeness Of old Ate. which he
war tod WAS Very popular IN the .Soath
lie appeared TO be surpYis,d when inform.
I'd sbat his money WAS worthless in this
section lie SAYS ,l,at the 46ih New I'o K
Regiment numbers zoo nen, aud the Con.
n,eI.cut 9Th about loo; that both these
! Regiments are 81 'rybee Islapd, Together
wlth E companies ct artillery; that the
I enemy cnjuy Very good healili, ard have
had but little sickness.
Those neu were 80 ignorant that they
, corii not remember the name .Gf he vesscl
they were attached to, bul thouaht IL Wa
ne gurLo,t Mouie1uma. 1hoy say she
! lad Ubout one hundred men on board, but
on Saturday the day previous TO their
| capture, she was reinforced by soms forty
! or ftty nien from G'ybee Island
v ben asked what they were fgh,ing
foe, these men promptly and frankly re
} die. "for pas 1hGy said that beoassi,y =
F! compelled then. 20 enter the Fa,ieral Arme
! and ,ha, if an opportunity offered thss
7 would join the iohfederate forces and fight
| for tho South. The MOST Intelligent alau
! Of the two stated that ct least onehalf OF
I the 46th Regiment were in favor o. the
south, asserting that she was right, while
the other halt took sides wiih tho North.
| All ot the men wore tired Of the war and
! wash Il orough to sfecdst close. They
were under the Impression that in two
months the 's4r would be ,aymDated, and
that they wouid all return to their homes
and receive their pay
They say that Col Rose is in c,mnland
OF their regiment, and that they heard the
officers say that on next Friday Fort Pu-
sskj would DO attacked That iu a few
dayst would be captured. and then the
Federd arihy would advance IN Savannah
and tako Il
We giye the above for wha; IL is,worth
being the expression Of captured prisoners
IL is proper 70 say however, that they ap
peared 20 be frank aud tree in lhetr cou
verSsticu, and free froM all restraint