The New York herald., 1864-08-04

% iieu. D I Eiay, GO. D, AID Mas. .chusc,s
Iiout. VIM. II. CowdfG, Co y, All Massachusetts.
Lieut. + VIII e Go. |. aga Massachusetts
Iieat. r. s'owell, Go. x, 42d Massachusetts,.
Lieut. Boot i75lh New York.
Lieut. Cox, lT5tb New York.
Lieut.. Dane, Scnal corps.
Lieut.. Dana, l2ih slaine.
Lient. Kirby, 10th New York.
Lieut.. Bulkley, l2ih Connecticut.
Lieut.. Laurie. l2h Connecticut
Captain Hall (og Massachusetisl, Ger. Banks star
1 Lieut. SiinDson, Gen. Banks STAT.
Acting Master Weeks. OF guuboat Clifton.
WHERE THEY wERs cAfTuEED.
| These prisoners captured at Galveston, Sabine
ass, Franklin, Brashear City ard during the late Red
river campaign though the most or them became prison
srs prior TO the recent operations the Rod river.
| APPEARANCE OF rRisoSEfs
When he privates marched up through the OF
| New Orleans sunday morning they presented
pIiable appear nee The most OF ihosn had no shoes
md nearly all had only apologies for shirts and panis
bat no blouscs or blankets Some OF them were literally
| clothed Ia rags; some had no hats, shrts, and
| many dressed in butternut pants and homespun
shirts. No. only Ualon peopie deceived and sup.
posed hcm be rebel prisoners captured some sbefe
quite recently secesh svmpathzers were also so far
deceive that they clustered around presented
money unti they discovered that thew were making
donations TO Union andne to rebe, soldiers Theu they
hastily RETIRED chaGrned lha, sympathies had led
then TO the performance Oh an act which they dts
| avov.
/ NARRATIVE or TnH otpser PRISONERS.
The returned Union officers who have been longest Ia
The hands o. the rebels Colonel Burril the officers
R IoGpanies y, u, ana h OF the Forty Nassa
chlsets Volunteers. From Captaiu A. Proctor, 81
regiment. obtain the following factsIt viii be rcnem.
beted hal portion Of this regiment stationed by
order or Commodore Renshaw the end OF wharf in
Galveston barbados having been thrown up to proven.
| an attack in their front. On Tho morning OF January
1867 at ha past three O'Clock the enemy attempted 10
SCALE the wharf bat repused with oc sixty
XII and wounded out OF three hundred After tae sur
render OF the Harriet Lane wien enemy brought
.her batteries TO bear upon tins fragment OF regiment
terms surrender agreed upon at half past seven
O'Clock they haviog iour hours with loss Of one
1
! forty men who went into the action General Scurry
commanded the brigade which the attacking party
detailed aud General Maguder held G weston with
even Thousand Infantry and dismounted cavalry and
! thirty pieces of artillery.
the terms Of surrender a private property Of the
officers 10 be retained Colonel Burrl offered 10 sur.
ciinef To receive It, compll1ennc the Colonel by say.
ING that be was worthy to retain It. The other officers
were pc mitIed to retain their side nrms.
WHITTIER TIiEr MAneggp-SoTBING TO FAT.
In hall an hour after the surrender the Fortv
distant. aud then marched bridge two miles
long to virginia Point where they arrived az ten O'Clock
a. NJ That day tEey had nothing TO cat. except a
oysters that nroshed The officers towards night
At one O'Clock A. H., Jan. 2 they started by rail for
two hours At ioarP NJ they easiea coup and ist
beef but no other meals were allowed them that day
ing an Imprisonment OF four months Houston they had
regular rations OF neal beef, rice, mo-
lasses Their tire ,tment was> generally very good On
the 23t % January the priyates OF regiment were
paro.od and se9t 20 Baton Rouge.
|
Ope of those vie spec mems OF humanity, Yankee
turned traitor, by the Of Gushing, no ed.tei the
| Houston TttGrGph and was originally Vermcuter at
Two dilefent times wrote most maanant aud b.i4er
editorials recommending thnt these Union officers be
hu'g, In etadion for certain alleged III treatment to
bel ocers elsewhere This rendered their situation
pleasant and pori0us, there fears tba.
soldiers ard citizens exasperased oy thase inaammatory
Appeals, would overpower the guard and execute
from HOUSTON TO HrsrsvItLr pryIrrSrlAnY
On the 2jth Of Ap officers heard that fifteen Off
Gers id been hung In Alabama by the rebels and the
next day they informed that they proceed
10 huntsville peneatiary, there, probably to be
cuted They let Houston Aps 25 and arrived Igunfs-
vile, one hurdred and twenty Ave niles distant, Nay l.
srRPiED on THEIR YALr AHLGs ayD coSfJ.'ED IN
The watches. money ard pipes were taken from the
prisoners. who consigned to convcts cells with toe
Injunction eak each other penllty Of beng
put In the stocks In tnese cels they confined
dys their only lood being bread and water. 1t was
through the iustrumentalty OF Governor Lubhac that
they sent TO the peneltary, and be contemplated
Fubectug them - The system oi pusorv asor
that conyics impr soncd icr crime performed Gut this
pro.ec shandoned. After Grs, three days they
treated with more consideration, allowed TO
leave the cell t. eat at the table after the guards had
finished her heals.
RELEASE RON THr pEyrrsrI,Rr
The citizens of Huntsville petitioned Gover3er rub-
buck TO release these officers the pen
expressing tear TINT their Continued confinement would
attract the attention OF General Banks who nght seud
su cient force to destroy the factory the
arsest OF the kind in the confcteracy turning
thousand yards OF army cloth daily.
DEPARTURE ugMPs1EAp.
The prisoners LEFT huntsville, June 2s for Hcmpsead
hiring three wagons transport blankets
bsggage ortysix mites to Navasoa whence they ro1e In
tho cars, twenty-five miles, ienp stead arriving there
June 30
Accsss1oss TO rHna yuNrER.
Here they Found twelve oicess aud eighty prlvates OF
the one Hundred and Sevortyfth New York Volunteers
aud other regiments enc,mped long barracks erected
or camp Of instruction TAis the most unhealthy
location they had been in and there they remained until
December They suffered severely from SICKNESS and
buried during that time twenty officers aud pTvates
For two m nihs there we're not well men enough among
the prisoners 10 take OF the sick They raised dre
hundred dollars among themselves, which they expended
In the purchase Of medicines -HsH#
HOUSTON.
Az Hampstead they were frequently visited by General
sam Houston who entertained them by "reminiscences OF
hts cvIl and military life and experiences They formed
the opinion that ne had no especial sympathy for the
rebel He dcd July 81 1865, aged seventy years.
DEATHS OFFICES At HrMPsrEAD.
Lieutenant Benz r. Bartlett, Forty second Massachu-
setts, died August % 1869.
ded september Q, 1858, aud was buried
with Masonic hopors.
Lieutenant Rumscy, One Hundred and Seventy sixth
New York died October Q, 1863.
Lieutenant Hayes one Hundred and Seventy sixth
New York died October IL 1853.
pgrAaIuRg SHREVEPORT.
December H. 1868, the prisoners left Hampstead for
nra mes 10 ss acs
many Of them without shoes Or stockings, over roads
covered wsn snow ana zee 40 h. a.on acs
for nfty dollars each rebei money 10 convey them
Three officers ughs mules, and sold them again on their
arrival at Tyler Thirty SIX officers paid one thousand
dollars rebe currency Tor The transportation OF their
blankets TO Tyler, two nus dred miles.
Arriving at Tyler December 90 they quarcred IN
blockade three hundred feet square, with sixty other
officers, already occupants of the camp The privatcs
had all been paroed and sent TO shreveport They were
obliged 10 lie the ground exposed 10 cold and the
snow until they could construct log house for their ac.
commodation. Camp Tyler, which iour miles from
tho town. proved 10 be very healthy oc tion. IL mad
good spring water mprcgnated with sulphur and ircn
sufficient tor bout q thous md men.
March 30 hundred and thirty men, who had been
shreveport parole returned TO the stockadc their
exchange not Ing beon ELECTED About nfty escaped
on the march, lhose who returned had shelter from
the incemeut clements and could get mono.
l.fto mad Narcn all Cf xyn
two we're recaptured by the boodbounds kept for that
purpose
BuvDRrD Mry wrTiouT sHgLTRH.
OF the eight hundred aud sixty men inside the stock
sde, three hundred feet square, only hundred and
thirty were under shelter.
OFF.
AnrI g. three hundred and priyatcs and twenty