New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-05-16
PROM FREDERICKSBURG.
OF Rebel Prisoners - Reports Of
tho Capture Of Richmond - Lack Of
Hospital supplies - suferings Of she
Wouuded-List Of Wounded,
from Our Special Correspondent.

from Our Special Correspondent
FREDERICKSBURG, Saturday mornings o'clock.
The head Of a column Of Rebel prisoners
taken yesterday. said 10 be fee ps long las just en-
tered this city Of wars mutations Men Of huge frames
and vigorous heath-generay u unintellieent, cum
ming or suen brutal faces-men Of idle lives mani.
testify and looking by turns tavern.hauntcrs and
deer hunters they the models Of crafty and
lutte soldiery for the uses of Slavery.
The rumors that with these captiyes Of the
taking OF eight thousand prisoners yesterday including
three Generals and confirming day before yes,cr-
days news al Belle Plain that Ben. Butler had taken
Richmond indicate the destruction capture Of Lees
army and the speedy close Of the war. Thank
God for the youchsafed promise-thank Him more
earnestly for the tenacity and virtue with which the
North has prosecuted the war
Oh this city of hospitals oh this Gogotha of Bureau
cratic neglect and Of baed and hampered benevoencc
Within the hour have young aud beautiful girl
from New Hampshire, volunteer nurse in Prof Frank
Hamiltons Hospital begging In the private houses Of
this Rebel city for cotton linen cloth for bandages
In this Hospital and in others there Is not the material
with which the volunteer surgeons can even wrap up
the wounds OF the warriors which IL dress OF other
nece sary hospital supplics-of nedicncs-oi utensils
Of even tin cups-of everything save tho eternal hard
tack and coeeit would be scandal to tell and would
kindle RACES which l. for one in this hour Of Gods
mercy to Us on the field Of battle, not disposed
infame
But this city is city of hospitals Every wherein
all houses are our wounded. / thought enough had
been brought TO Belle Plain in the day and half was
there 70 empty Fredericksburg. And on my way here
Yesterday afternoon, rode through delayed anhu.
lance train in which were said TO be two thousand five
hundred wounded-and they had been delayed there
(under what Circumstances Of suffering from want Of
water and food let any msgine) for eighteen hours.
Two had died during the halt II rode up TO the body
Of the one not yet buried and asked his name. None
could tell All they knew WAS that lie was OF the 22d
Massachusetts, My heart and head had for a day and
half been sickened win the multitude Of the Union
wounded--the most slightly" 50 TO be sure-and my
eyes had got aching with the spectacle Of them But
lad not begun 10 see the results OF the battle
9th. wilderness. The moment entered fredericks
burg perceived hospital rode by hospitals on my
way TO the Baptist Church. where Frank Hamilton has
chnrge of about 800 wounded I visited with him in
back street in an nconvcnicnt house, the wounded OF
the regiment Of his son Col Theodore b. Hamilton.
There other hospitals in that back street There
were in the msn street OF the city. aud when
inquired Of q friend WHERE should go TO get tams he
had lent b. me, he sad my hospital is in an old mill
mile and three qunrters from here. right down this
principal street. and of to the right" The town is in
deed vast hospital
But time will not serve for recals or cricism-I go.
Before leaving incose the Of all the wounded
have been able to get in my hurried vist-those under
the care Of the widely known and as widely respected
Surgeon Frank Hamilton sw.
GXTY-sECOSD NRw-YoRX VOLUNTEERS.
Sergt. Jas Ferguson, leg John Perine. thigh
Thos Canon, leg Corp. George Neal leg
Psni So '. um- JsHel Lerney, hand