Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-01-14
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On, Of the Sastss a. ws kpeB noshing whas.
ever OF what occurs In shs psison wher.
~rebeis taken fn arms are keps-th is
Y s'ths prisoner of war. ~ ''''ss
| Ia asaat nos DO forgottsa shat there have
/ been from six to ssTaa hanAraa noIitieal
prisoners at Camp Chase at time :. and
although several hundreds have bean late
~ discharged without trial, there IRE vet
there sone four handrsd--ens or svo
hundred Of Lbeae bars, arrived there With
10 past few days from Kentuokv and
western Virginia. These men are taken
sFoaa their homes, sone from their beds
@& night SONS FROM ahair homes In day
tiines and great many al shsm are piek-
ed up IN their fields at work., and neyar
suffered TO see their families before being
spsTased OF 10 Ohio and 'inaareerated in
saa eaiehraisd Bastile, which via soon be
- famous - Qlmata itself. sfs7 .#t ..
Oar Ohioans are put into the same
prison With these men from other States
and from them we have learned SONS facss
which the people Of ohis eaghs to know.
Many OF these men haye been KENT in this
prison for over ofB Year. d great mauy
forase, Hx, seven and eight months, With
out even sesiag outside, or being allowed
20 communicate personally with aus one,
not even wife, child, father, mosher, or |
stranger. |
They are furnished With nothing but |
single blanket, even these cold hisats, 1
aaless !lI.e thsy are able 70 psrehass addition
~ comfarts With monsy they may be able |
to command. Many are poor men, and I
unsblsi TO purchase they wBres not ber- |
nlsted to bring along change of doth 1
ings and naay had % whsu ssized moth |
ing bat summer wear, and that has. be- |
come filthy, worn out, and scarcely hangs
upon their backs. .za"7 35iR' 1
Rhsy hass no bedding and arg 4isere- !
lore eompallad 20 slesp an bare boards-
They have not enough wood fnnishea to
Esep sires sn night, and hence the suffer /
nglis intensified by the cold weather.
4 shey &tsempt, after night, 70 walk out i
n the yard to take eff the chills as the /
treaEy gighs. they are Instantly threat.
med 10 be shot by the ggards, aa ordered
BY these In command. ss A'FS 'i-o' 234' |
Dr. Alen5 sf G0lnmbas eoun ", Ohio. /:
aid that be laid on bars .hsaras uaEa lais
lips were black and blua. Tha wsod fur.
iished them is four feet lang, and thsY I
Ire compelled, each mess, 10 chop it .up 4
or themselves, and the nroxisions be,na
!, furnished raw, they have 70 cook Tor
7 themselves henolieat, always that
hsss are political prisoners, against
whom no one appears rs aceGseE, and no \
rial 10 permitted, /
The prison has become filthy-awfuly Il
Io-and the rats are in droVes. If the
prisoners attempt to kill one of these
ats, they are forbidden, and threatened
EiEh being shot instantly. Recollect,
dways, as we have said above, these ara
soiitica prisoners, against whom soma
nalieious negro warshipper has created
suspicion Of disloyalty, bat whose mama
8 kept secret, and hence there can be
10 trial '."+
The prison is perfectly alivs with lice,
md no chance is given to escape the liy-
ng Eeruiin. A dead man, One of the
'riseners, was the other day carried out +
o the dead yard, and Lard there over
llgAF, aEd when visited in tAa morning
y other prisoners, who heard there Was
! dead man there, they found the hair on
lis head stiff with iicp and nits-the fice
sreaping into his mouth in great numbers 4
'ad ~ he lay with his mouth open, the
ice we're thick era wing in and ous Of his
pen mouth. /
Not long since two Of the prisoners got
nsa Q seattle Ia trying their ssreBgh, and
Inally into kght, as wss supposed, and
eEsgal other persons Eashed to part them,
Ehan tha guards from the lookout above
lred On them, killing 80 old man by the
larne OF 5oneS, from Western Virginia,
nd a ball grazing ahs skull of smother
Ee fell, and 1t was supposed ut first he
vas killed also another OF tbe balls
'assed through board at the bead of al
iek man in the hospital, and ouly es-
'4ped him by afew inches. The two mgn
a the souEi1s were not hurt. s N
We might 20 further, but God knows
his Is enough for one once. In 10 enough
0 make ans's blood run cold 20 think of
Nov, if aay doubts this--if the author-
ties at Camp or at the State House,
Ioubt tiff the Legislature when Il
aeet&, wall raise n committee, We promise
0 name the witnesses who, IL seat for
Eiil under oath, prove ali this and as
aueh more, some Of which ia too indie
ent to print in newspaper for the
'ublic eye. -. -. bell IA .a e.s |