The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-01-28

bufbeOH n J.Otcll lJtbhlt, WIN WAS OAptuitu hb Wv
battle o. Perryvile and detained nearly two months
among the Yankees, gives his experience of thci
treatment, in the following letter to Cen Bragg
Adutant General, published In the Wincheste
Bulletin
TuLLAuoMA, Jan. IS, 1868.
SIR Having been captured at the battle o
Peryville, Oct. 6th, 1862, and detained for nearl,
n two months, by order of the Federal commanders
as Surgeon Of the Confederate Hospital, established
a. Harrodsburg, Ky, | deem Tiny duty to give pub
citv TO the facts that fell under my observation as
to Federal treatment Of Confedentes.
The backened corpses VI eur dead remained uHbner-
led for mere than one week and when the shallow
pretence Of intefment was performed the neither ex
uemitics Of all and the arms Of many were lett ex
posed. Swine were the scavengers OF the field dig
gingnp the half buried dead and In many instances
separating the skull from tie body
Atthe Hospital our sick ana wounded were In a
great measure supported by the charitable oontrbu.
lions OF the ladies. For the first month we received
scarcely any medicines from TIE Federas, and were
dependent lorthe leading articles, such as opium,
gginine and chotcieim, upon private contributions
Ihe bold excuse Tor this inhumanity was, that the
medicine train intended Tor as had been captured by
Gen, Morgan, thus venting their Thlignity upon The
uhlorlunates whom the chances OF war thleW INTO
their hands. Mnt
After having been relieved from duty at Ilarrods
barg again witnessed the Yankee idea OF humanity
otihAptl lHunlINNu W AHlOy WntIt cltNcu
men were crowded into boat, (the Daosiab) which,
according 70 the lnspoctos certificate, was intended
to carry only two hundred and fifty; and this space
was contracted by the guard about thirty in number
who occupied thu hurricane deck 70 the exclusion Of
All except commissioned officers, who were permitted
e so thlker only occasionally moreover en- the low
ca deck was coal eufcient for the doWn and return
trip as tar as Memphis. Commissioned officers were
required 70 pay foriho hunks which they occupied,
sht wing either that the u. s. Government did not
for tho luli pnnnpttv tho
or that the officers In charge OF the returning prison
era connyed nc the exori0n practced by the officers
OF the boat Although our men had beon robbed Of
everything except barely enough 10 cover nakedness
yet raw ratons wlre dslrib ted and no utensils, no
appliances for cooking were furnished. The boat
which accompanied US (the Salie List) had nine
hundred prisoners on hoard. and most oil these being
sick or wounded, the Federal Surgeon remained On
her We frequently made acquisitions on him for
medicines, whicl were furnished IN quanttles totally
inadevuate 10 our necessities. Owing to me crowded
state Of the boats, the want Of provisions and medl
cinee, sickness prevailed 10 such on alarming extent
that on reaching Memphis, representations being
made 70 the authorities, another boat uhe Tecnmsh
was added, 10 which the sick from both boats were
transferred Adequate supplies OF medicines having
been provided, and oul number having been reduced
by transfer and death 70 six hundred, we reached
Yicksburg In comparative comfort The cartel ex~
istlng between the Goycfnments was violated by
Brig Gen. j. w. Tuitle, commanding az Cairo I'm
dc his order The Provost Marshal of that place took
possession of my horse and equipments, and neglect.
ed to reply 70 Formal protest against the act When
called rpon personally be alta ca that no had acted In
accordance With the order from his Government aud
promised TO find the order and give his witcn reason
filled. sfHW n s.ln
Let the world know tho bafbarOus brutality that
denies decent inierment 10 our dead; the fleudish
mallgnity that refuses medicines 10 our sick and
wounded; the contemptiblo ayafico that furnishes
lnadtq rate tlansportatlons 10 exchanged Captiyesi
the Bedouin apaclty that robs paroed prisoners and
The utter want og GOOD faith which totally dsregards
solemn irtaiy obligations
Yours very respectfully,
j. CEOIL IG0ARE.
Surgeon p. A C.e.
Col CIV BREw, A. A.G.