The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-06-06

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publican, Dunn Browne, had the misfor
tune to be taken prisoner on the Kappa
hammock, not long since. He had captured
two rebels, and not satisfied with tina
made a charge upon rebel regiment
Having regard for its feelings he conclu
an Involuntary trip to Richmond. In {
letter to the Republican, he tells chow The
rebels treat their prisoners" as follows:
| Dear Republican have been among Ital
ian brigands, and Greek pirates. and Be
douin Arabs, but. for makinga clean thing
of the robbing business, commend me tt
| the Confederate States of America so called
They descend to the minutie of the profes
sion in a way that should be instructive t.
all novices in the art. Nothing is too small
| to escape their rapacity. No article of ap.
| parel is sacred from their omniverous
clutches; no crumb of provision but theil
acute olfactories will smell it out. They
ransacked our haversacks, and contiscated
the little rations of sugar we happeued tc
| have therein as contraband of war. They
stripped the canteens from the Shout
ders of the thirsty soldiers, and are send
| ing them off on a long march, to suffer nc
small Inconvenience from this privation.-
| They are taking away all our blankets
without which these cold nights will be in
| supportable till we can obtain new sup
| ply. They picked our pockets of the few
| stray envelopes and sheets of writing pa
per we CHANGED to possess. And this be i,
understood, not as precaution to prevent
| our writing in person. There is no regula-
ton to prevent that, no prohibition Of oui
sending out and purchasing all the paper
we wished. But it is just a specimen of the
scale on which they conduct business.
And in another way, the official proceed
| ings of this chivalrous Confederacy are lust
| about as small. A system of petty annoy
| ances and oppression on the smallest pos
slble scale has been uniformly observed
| in reference to the Union prisoners in their
hands. When they wished to remove the
hundred or so Federal officers by rail from
Guinney's station to Richmond, they or
dered us to prepare to move at p. M,
kept us standing in ranks in pouring
| rain for several hours, then marched us
halfa mile to the cars, and kept US waiting
| there, the rain still pouring furiously upon
| us, till half past 10 p. M, when they march
| ed us back to our flooded camps again.
with orders to be in readiness at mo-
ments notice, two or three hours hence, OF
any time during the night. Losing all our
rest that night, and wandering forlorn and
dripping. we heard nothing more of NOV
ing till the next p. ~, about o. clock
| when we were put through the same pro-
cess of waiting, and the second time kicked
| our heels about the station in the deep mud
till or Sp. M, when we were ordered back
to camp again, but afterward did get
aboard and spend the night in the box cars
lawfully dirty although we did not move
till noon the third day All this, of course,
as a mere annoyance to us, and to make q
display of their power, as nothing could be
| easier than to know when there was train
| for US. And of a piece with this is the or
der given to the sentinels here to prevent
us from looking out of the windows of the
Libby, on pain of being fired upon. In the
same style is pretty much the whole of the
confederate behavior to-us-ward. To be
consistent to the end, they woke us about
haif past Ii last night, and told us we should
De paroied and marched for City Point al
at ; a. m. So no more sleep for that night
1t is now o'clock, p. m, and we have
not started yet, and shall have to march
laAA-nlght TO reach our destination.