The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-10-31


here will not believe it. 1t is too
true. ON saddened to have to re-
call it.
Thank Heaven! there are to-day
two good and true loyal Union men
in Montgomery. They reside there,
hnt | dare not tell their names in
Chicago to night; in travelling over
Illinois, dqre not call their names,
for there are traitors here that will
soon let them bo known ss Union
men in Montgomery, Alabama. -.
[Crics of true" true and ap.
plsuse.] These two men sent me
word--"General i'rentiss, your sick
and wounded soldiers who were
wounded It Shiloh, are suffering
and dying in the hospital here for
want Of attention." obtained per.
mission through Col. Geddes, OF 10
wa, to visit those men. We entered
the hospital together. As we came
to the door, IL was announced to the
men that their General was coming
to pay them a visit, and oh! il ! ev.
or beheld q sight upon earth that
made me feel sad, II was when ! en-.
tered that hospital. There lay over
ono hundred Of those brave, suffer
ing eeld;ers--some dying with va
rious diseases, and many Of them,
although it was two months and Il
half since they were wounded a.
Shiloh, yet wore upon their backs
the foul and bloody shirts they had
brought from that feld, never hav.
ing been furnished a change.
went among them and took them
by the hand. Tney cried--I cried
Col Gsides cried, and | conld curs'
the man that would not cry
[Chcers | found that hospital
swarning with vermin. | fonnd my
soldiers lying there on pallets o
hay, between boards set upon the
odge, with none to take care Of them
save those Of their own number, two
had psrtislly recovered. | tnrned
upon my hoeI after conversing will
them and said, Bows will dc
something for you." | went to tn.
city, snd then found two men
from Chicago--married men. They
dare not tell me they were Union
men. but knew they were. wen
nts tho hotel. As | passed throny
1.-THE hall looked to the top OF tbs
stairs, and there we're two ladies
crying. | knew them; approached
them and told thom the condition oI
our soldiers, and they generously
gave me two hundred and fifty dol
lars TO relieve thoso unfortunate
men. God bless them! Immense
cheers Ono OF those men took the
cars with me, and we came fifty
miles together. He talked secesf
and talked Union all the timo. bu,
durirg the conversation he remarked
gently, General how are you of
for iunds?" Il have not red cent,
was ny answer. lie slipped into
my hand twenty-five dolis-a. which
y divided with my fellow office:s. -
( Renewed chsers.l Many Of those
men in that hospital died, but let
me say in behalf Of these ladies,
that afternoon they visited them.
taking with them scissors, clothing
and c'her things necessary for the
soldiers. They trimmed their hair,
furnished them with clean clothing
and bedding, washed their soiled
and wounded limbs an! took q.
tender care Of them IA if theS had
been their own children. To-nigG
a large majority of those soldiers are
living, and thank Heaven. are on
their way home. Applause.]
Tle then related an instance or
two OF rebel barbarity, and gave thu
following account Of his own attem pt
to escape:
/. too, was prosecuted like the
rest. | thought it was my dnty TO
attempt to escape. Col. Geddes
thought it was his duty. Twenty
two others thought likewise, and we
concluded We would escape. We
were caught in the endeayor. Ten
Of ns were confined in a dungeon
sixteen feet equare with an apartment
only Elk inches wide. to admit the
light We thought we could bring
away some token OF those bitter days
We procured file and filed off the
chain the felou's chain that hung
10 thu floor, divi ling tho links among
tho dfleren. officers. Here ia mine.
(Tho audience greeted the display oil
the iron.link exhibited by the &c,
eral with great applaus".) I shall
carry it from this time on through
the war. / shall have II fastened 10
my saddle, AID every time ! enter
an engagement With the enemy
will look again at the ring which
helped to file from the chain Of our
dungeon, and as | examine it more
closely, will learn to hate any man
ia our land, who will not lend heart
and hand in putting down this re.
bellion.
After averring that the treatment
was tho same everywhere, and re.
lat'ng how Captain Gregg, who had
oono on to Wnshinptnn 10 neaoiiaia