Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-01

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/ Yale College, for next year, is DIR. Richard
! s. Storrs, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Substitute,
/ Hon. Dwight Foster, of Worcester. The
/ poet is Rev. Andrew l.. Stone of Boston.
! Substitute, DR.. J. &. Holland of Springfield.
The Prisoners of Fort Wagner-COlOred
Soldiers Murdered or sold into slave
ry-HOrrible Cruelues'
From the New York Trbune.l
Nouns ISLAND, July 26.-The hospital
steamer Cosmopolitan, with wounded rebels on
board met the steamer Alice, of Charleston,
yester day, off Fort Wagner under flag of
truce, according to an agreement entered into
Il few days since in reference to an exchange
of prisoners. Col. Hall and VIM. S. Stryker
of Gen. Gillmore's staff, and DIR. Craven of
the Medical Department, represented the de-
partment of the south, and Col. Anderson of
the 18th South Carolina, and Major Middle
ton and Capt. Wagner of Gen. Ripley's stan
the &C. S. A."
The wounded on board of the Alice were
brought to the Cosmopolitan by n. IL. Nathans
and his corps of Charleston tiremen. Bishop
Lynch, Roman Catholic bishop OF South Car
DINA, accompanied the wounded, and was I'M
RENTING in his attentions to them. Officers
of the rebel army could not have received
/ IllOiC uGiCdlc VI dAlGilllOAS ilOlii mum
! His praises are upon every tongue. He re-
| peatedly expressed the hope that this unnat-
| fral and cruel war would soon be over, and
that the whole country might again be united
| and prosperous. Thirty-eight rebels (prl-
vates) and four surgeons were exchanged tor
! los union wounded, including three officers,
| one of whom died while being placed on
| board.
1t appears from the very best sources of in.
formation that Col. Shaw of the 54th Massa-
chusettS, instead of having been hung by
Charleston mob, as was believed, was shot in
the heart early in the engagement, and buried
the next morning in pit with % negroes.
The Charleston papers, from the 2lst to the
9th inst, all say that $50 Of our killed were
buried on the Sunday morning after the as
sauit. This extraordinary proportion of the
killed to the wounded could not have been
reached without an indlscrmnate numbering |
OF our soldiers, after they had fallen wounded |
and helpless. Our entire loss in killed, |
wounded, and missing, according to official |
report, was but 1917; if $50 of that number
were buried, as rebel officers and rebel news |
papers solemnly assert, it was the most fear
full slaughter, considering the numbers en-
gagged OF the war.
One hundred and eight of our wounded are
still at Charleston and Columbia. The Off
GERS anu tlGll OI the Otlu NIdSSdClluSGltS ACOl
ored) will not be given up, nor has it yet been
positively ascertaned what has become of
them. Unofficial reports say the negroes
have been sold into slavery, and that the Off
GERS are treated with unmeasured abuses. Of
the latter there is no doubt whatever. | have
conversed with several offlcess who were ex-
changed on Friday, and they all tell me that
the first question asked them was whether
they commanded negro troops. If the re-
Spouse was in the negative, they were told |
that it was fortunate for them, for every id |
niger commander would be hung on shot at
sight.
There is but one opinion with regard to |
the treatment our wounded men received at |
Charleston, 1t was cruel, shameful, barbar- |
Gus. Nearly every sentiment of humanity |
seems to have departed from these South
Carolina wretches. The slightest gun-shot
wound, which our army surgeons would have I
soon healed, Immediately suggested to these
professional butchers the knife, the saw, am
putation, and in this climate, death. Every
opportunity to mutilate the body by amputa-
ton was seized upon, and after the opera
ton was performed, the surgeons seemed
profoundly indifferent whether spark of
life remained or not. This shameful treat
ment was not confnt to the severely wound
ed, but nearly all who were so unfortunate az |
fall into their hands.
The officers and soldiers now on board the |
Cosmopolitan will tell you that they had not
a single change of clothing, and in many in
stances had not even their wounds dressed |
until they reached the dock of cur hospital |
ship. The Sisters of Mercy offered their SER
vices. but were not allowed to enter the wards |
Of the hospital.
From the New York herald.
When the exchange of wounded was being
TT.l
Hall, Gen. Gillmores representative, inquired
why no wounded of the Massachusetts 54th
(colored) regiment had been sent down.
THAT is matter for after consideration with
my governments" replied Col. Anderson, the
rebel commissioner 'But in the agreement
for the exchange of wounded prisoners there
was no exception whatever" replied Col
Hall. ':We regard the colored troops as an
other class of people altogether" spid Colonel
Anderson In the meantime wounded Irish
rebel had begged, with tears in his eyes, not
| to be put on board the rebel steamer Alice.
He said he was a Union man, always had
| been, and refused to go back to the rebels.
| Some one had stricken his name from
the list, and represented he was too
| i'll to be removed. But Colonel An
| dprson got a clue to the real cause
| of detention, and at his request Colonel Hall
| investigated the facts, and found he was de-
tanned simply because Union man. Then
Col. Anderson grew wroth, and insisted on
his being got at once on the Alice. ale is
an enlisted man, and can not elect where he
shall go or stay. He is clearly subject to the
general agreement about exchanging the
wounded" said the colonel. $50" replied
| Col Hall, ''are the colored soldiers" Then
| Col. Anderson wished Col. Hall to put his OBJ
| jertions to what he had asked in writing, on
| o. ba to
| Gen. Gilmore. Col. Hall acquiesced at first,
but on Col. Anderson positively refusing to
furnish Il written paper on his part, refused.
| The rebels say they will sell all the negroes
they catch, and it is understood, if they do,
| hostages selected for the purpose will be hung.
BY HIS EXCBLLENCY
| John A. Andrew, Governor,
A PROCLAIM ALTON.