The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-01-07
THE WAR FOR TIE UNION !
REBELDoA BEHIND THE SCENES
Poverty. sorrow mud Hopeless
ness of the Rebels -Trcnt-
uncnt Of Union Prisoners.


4. Fort Waguc-, Morris Island, s. e., I
wBs taken prisoner ny the rebels, aud
trsnsfcrrcd 90 the city of Charleston,
there parol,d gvrh the liberty OF the
city, and ullowrd to help to attend to our
wounded that had fallen into rebel
hands, aud were then In the Prisoners
Hospital in the city.
At the Prisonets' Hospital found
three hundred and eighteen of our men,
fity.fivc II whom were negroes. ntver
saw wounded men more injured. or the
entire number, not ten could help them
selves. aud there were not Il ~ that did
not require smputation. An the wound
cd were unattended to from the time OF
attack liil the morning Of July 20. Tho
weather was exceedingly warm. Meth.
er water nor food could BE- obtained for
them for twcuty.fuur hours after Injury.
They had been taken irum the battle
field IN nmbulances and up 10 the city IN
steamer, aad know that many poor
fellow died during that trurste oncc.
The Prisoners Hospital is brick
building, Formerly a negro auction mart
tur stories high, and about forty by
eighty feet In siz'. Every room was ill
ed with wounded. The place swormed
with ilics, aud, ia spite vi oil we could
do, the wounds would get in horrible
state. The rebel authorities supplied an
abundance Of chlorpiorm, spirits, food
aud m,dcincs, aud the rebel surgeons
were all unrcmitliug IN their attentions,
nnd, with but one exception, skilllul and
careful men. And here | viii say, once
tor ALL that during my entire experience
IN rcbrldom, did not receive an uukind
wGrd from q rebel tiliccr
The r. bel surgeons aud myself worked
day aud night I'll ncorly all the sufferers
had beau mudr On comfortable M possible,
aud sent wilhin our lines, when ! was
nut jr jail.
= Duuug vs. stay in Chnrlcston, had
wandered freely about the CITY. The
burned district remains ns the irc lett il
= not brick Oi the ruius has been touch
ed, aLd the srccis o! that sectlun are
gross-gruwe und deserted. Broad street,
in oldcn tmcs the business street aud
fashionable prumCnudr ut the city,
though y"t the principal avenue, is dull
and ubsnlntcy rad looking. Not one
sturc in I u Is occupied, aud those used
have vastly moro empty shelves than iull
onts. But few womcn and chilIrcn are
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