The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-11-11


Is nate Irishman," and tells a story
which is reliable in every particular.
He is an old boatman, and no man on
or off the river stands higher in the
estimation of his acquaintanees. His
captivity seems to have lain lightly on
him. His frame is powerful, and he is
as plump and wellconditioned as we
ever knew him to be before he was
CAPTURED AND SENT TO TYLER, GExAs
"You remember" Mr.. Price says to
oor river reporter, that was mate of
the Emma when she ran here, and
suppose you had in the Democrat all
about Banks Red River Expedition.
Well, you see our boat was going down
Red river, and on May lst, at Shaggy
Point, about forty FIVE miles tRlow Al
exandria, we were attacked by three or
four thousand cavalry. They did plen-
| ty of shooting, but fired no cannon at
US. The boat was captured and none
of US had been hurt We were made
prisoners, of course, and carried to Al
exandria, part of the way on a steamer,
from point near Grand Ecore We
| walked five or six days, and during all
! the journey were treated humanely and
generously enough. We were escorted
| by some of General Majors command
At Shreveport we were corraled and
well guarded After four days, we and
a lot of soldiers captured from General
Steele were started off for Camp Ford,
at the town of Tyler, Texas. We trav-
eled to Four Mile Spring the first day,
and in five days altogether reached our
prison, 10 miles from Shreveport
Captain Clark had been in command
with a guard Of battalion of Arkan-
sas cavalry. He was the biggest seoun.
drel | ever saw. His men didn't leave
as the first particle of anything they
could get l went to Clark to get back
a shirt that had been taken from me-
He and the men there laughed, and he
told them to treat the soldiers just as
they would like to be treated themS
selves, as they might meet them again
in the battle field, but as to the steam
boatmen, he did not care what was
done with them We got hardly any |
thing back After a great deal of beg |
giBg, got back my knife and this was
the only one among sixty or sew
enty of Us, to cut our meat with and |
do other necessary jobs. forgot to |
say that when we arrived four miles |
from Tyler, German soldier tried to |
escape be was shot through the hip, |
but afterwards got quite we'll A man
named Colonel Allen had charge of the
prison. He was q gentleman entirely,
and treated every one well in every re-
spect.
THE BARBAROUs COLONEL BODER-WANTs TO
SHOOT EVERY BOBY-CRUEL PUNIsHNENTs
. He did not stay long though, and we
were very sorry for his departure A
Colonel Boder, under Colonel Ander |
son, came next he was one of the
biggest scoundrels in the world He |
might be good fellow round whisky |
shop, but he was no gentleman any /
where else But after all, he wasn't the
biggest scoundrel, for his Adjutant
McCann, was worse again than him
He would come in every morning flour
ishing his pistol round among the pris>
oners, saying if they didn't keep away
be would shoot the sons Of BIS. To
the guard on duty about the gate he
would say, IF they don't stay away,
shoot them down
At last prisoners were running away
fast. When recaptured the punish
ment for their misdeed was this: IN
the forenoon to stand three hours in
the sun on a stump, bareheaded; in the
afternoon, tied to beam st the guard /
house by the thumbs for three hours,
standing on tip-toe.
SHOOTING PRIsONREs-DELIBERATE MURDERS.
During the summer saw five men
shot One Of them was a Pottawatto-
ME Indian, a member of the 9th Kan
sas regiment
A private of the both Illinois, as re-
ligious and good poor man as ! ever
saw, was quietly reading when he was
shot dead The rebel guard that shot
him said, as an excuse, that the prison
er was making fun of him; yet he was
away from aim a distance of a hundred
yards. There was great indignation at
that time among the prisoners, and
came near being break out that night
Another prisoner was cruelty slaugh-
tered without prOvocatiOn- His hal
blew over the stockade, and he asked a
fellow to get him his hat, when the
latter blazed away and killed him.
BoDERs SATANIC ORDER
Boder had a written order to his
guards hanging up, which could be read
by all In this order they were instruct
ed that when they caught any Of u
trying TO escape they were to leave us
where they found us.
HAEGE-A GOOD SOLDIER AND HUMANE NAN.
After while Kirby Smith got TO b,
the big chief in that district, and b.
did himself credit by ordering that al
such punishments should cease. BodeI
vas removed
A Col sweet then came on. He was
very much OF gentleman, and ss.-
he to the prisoners: IF you act like
gentlemen you will be treated like gen
lemen and never said prisoner
once, nor did ne use any offensiV,
words, gestures nor action Whatever
SAYS ne, you'll have the same 70 eat
ss my own men, but il you don't BE-
nave III have 20 keep you in YOU
place. His AdjutaRt and men acteG
n the same agreeable way. There i
one thing the Adjutant did not, and
would not DO; that is, send blood
hounds after escaped prisoners
USED IL TRACEHG EseGPED
Prison sKs--HOw SIMS oF THEN
WEaE KILLED. RI
Were there really bloodhounds there,
you ask2 Yes, sir. Let the world know
II, if you choose, and say ] told you 50
saw blo0dhoands within the stockade
and outside the stockade And the
we're kept generally in kennel They
were kept for the purpose, and used for
running down the prisoners if they got
away. We got a dogou'd good joke on
the bloods one time, though A pris-
oner slipped into their kennel one
night, ana came out again all night, bat
in the morning i've cf the animals were
found 10 be very dead, and Of no mor-
use in hunting Union prisoners They
we're said 70 be the best hounds Of the
lot
A SEN cARrEL-cURI0Us N0DR or EscAPs-
TIE UsLFuLEgr CART n THE WoKLD